Adjective

(en adjective)

(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

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, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

(label) First in a series or copies/versions.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}

(label) Newly created.

(label) Fresh, different.

(label) Pioneering.

(label) Having as its origin.

Adjective

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Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.

Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.

Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.

(Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.

* 1988 , Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia , Issue 71, page 94,

The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional' Australia, Outer ' Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.

An estimated two-thirds (66.3%) of the total population resided in Major Cities as at 30 June 2001. The rest were mainly residents of Inner and Outer Regional areas (31.1%) with only 2.6% of people in Remote or Very Remote areas.

* 2005 , Joy McCann, Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia?s Wheatlands'', Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie (editors), ''Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia , page 03-1,

The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.

* 2011 , Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer?s Australia 2011 , unnumbered page,

HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia?s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.