aboriginal
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
the art of the natives of the northwest coast
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- native derivation
- aboriginal derivation
Sense 2 adjective
characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
native Americans
Related & opposite
- nonnative antonym
- nativeness derivation
- native derivation
Sense 3 adjective
having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
aboriginal forests
Related & opposite
- early similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | native |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | aboriginal |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Levantine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Mauritian |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Filipino |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Russian |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Seychellois |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | nonnative |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nativeness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | native |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | early |