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What does aborigine mean?

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Noun
  1. An native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
  2. (plural) The native flora and fauna of an area. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
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Australia has helped in the founding of the museum by providing decoration for the ceilings, the work of Australian aborigine artists.
He had scratched an aborigine, and to his surprise was finding indications of a man.
Life expectancy for an aborigine is 21 years less than for a white Australian man. All this has opened up a tough mood in Canberra.
There has been serious disruption and dislocation of the aborigine community, and some reduction in their knowledge of the land.
There's an old black man, an aborigine, with long, tangled dreadlocks, kneeling at the edge of the pit.
It was the way he said the words, like a white trader offering his aborigine captors glass beads to set him free.

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