Difference between Native and Aboriginal

What is the difference between Native and Aboriginal?

Native as a noun is a person who is native to a place (literal or metaphoric). while Aboriginal as a noun is an aboriginal inhabitant of australia, aborigine.

Native

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who is native to a place (literal or metaphoric). A North American Indian or Aboriginal person. Sometimes used pejoratively against indigenous peoples by their colonizers.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Belonging to one by birth. Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning. Of or relating to North American Indians or Aboriginal people. Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin. Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man. Pertaining to the system or architecture in question. Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.

Example sentence: I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

Aboriginal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Original or indigenous to a placeOf or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines, or their language.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia, Aborigine.

We hope you now know whether to use Native or Aboriginal in your sentence.

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