Australian vs Aboriginal - What's the difference?
australian | aboriginal |
A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent.
A person from the continent of Australia.
A language of the country or continent of Australia; Australian (Australian English).
Of, from, or pertaining to Australia, the Australian people or Australian languages.
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
* 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
(Aboriginal)
An animal or plant native to a region.
* Charles Darwin
(Aboriginal)
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australian
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* Australian dollarSee also
* Strine - (colloquial - the Australian language)Anagrams
* ----aboriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
Synonyms
* (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primevalDerived terms
* aboriginality * aboriginallyNoun
(en noun)- It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.