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ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines
Synonyms:
Aboriginal Australian; Australian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Aboriginal Australian" is a kind of...):
Austronesian; Austronesian language (the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia)
Domain region:
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Aboriginal Australian"):
Dyirbal; Jirrbal; Walbiri; Warlpiri (a language of Australian aborigines)