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AUTOCHTHON (autochthones)
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Irregular inflected form: autochthones
Dictionary entry overview: What does autochthon mean?
• AUTOCHTHON (noun)
The noun AUTOCHTHON has 1 sense:
1. the earliest known inhabitants of a region
Familiarity information: AUTOCHTHON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The earliest known inhabitants of a region
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("autochthon" is a kind of...):
primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)
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