aboriginal

Adjective

• having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
  • aboriginal forests
    
  • primal eras before the appearance of life on earth
    
  • the forest primeval
    
  • primordial matter
    
  • primordial forms of life
    

• characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
  • native Americans
    
  • the aboriginal peoples of Australia
    

• of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia
  • an Aboriginal rite
    

Noun

• an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
  • the art of the natives of the northwest coast
    
  • the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
    

• a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  primal , primeval , primaeval , primordial , native , Aboriginal , indigen , indigene , aborigine , Aborigine , Abo , native Australian , Australian Aborigine