ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aboriginal Australian mean? 

• ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN (noun)
  The noun ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN has 1 sense:

1. the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines

  Familiarity information: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Aboriginal Australian; Australian

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)