The difference between Aboriginal and Indigenous
When used as adjectives, aboriginal means first according to historical or scientific records, whereas indigenous means born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
Aboriginal is also noun with the meaning: an animal or plant native to a region.
check bellow for the other definitions of Aboriginal and Indigenous
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Aboriginal as an adjective:
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
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Aboriginal as an adjective:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
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Aboriginal as an adjective:
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Aboriginal as a noun:
An animal or plant native to a region.
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Aboriginal as a noun:
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Indigenous as an adjective (chiefly, of living things):
Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
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Indigenous as an adjective:
Innate, inborn.
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Indigenous as an adjective:
Of or relating to the native inhabitants of a land.
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Indigenous as an adjective:
Of or relating to a language, culture, or ethnic group that has not spread by colonization, or that has been on the receiving end of colonization.
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- aboriginal vs native
- aboriginal vs indigenous
- aboriginal vs autochthonous
- aboriginal vs endemic
- aboriginal vs original
- aboriginal vs first
- aboriginal vs earliest
- aboriginal vs primitive
- aboriginal vs ancient
- aboriginal vs primordial
- aboriginal vs primeval
- aboriginal vs indigenous
- autochthonous vs indigenous
- indigenous vs native
- connatural vs indigenous
- indigenous vs natural
- indigenous vs local