autochtoon — meaning in English
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English meaning
- Aboriginal adj Relating to the original, native inhabitants of a region, especially before colonization.
- autochthon noun The first or native inhabitant of a place.
- autochthonous adj Belonging naturally to the place where it is found.
- indigenous adj Originating naturally in a particular place; native, especially before colonization or outside influence.
- native noun Someone who was born in a particular place.
Senses
autochtoon is used for these senses in English:
- aboriginal Living in a land before colonization by foreigners. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
- autochthon (formal) The earliest inhabitant of an area; an indigenous person.
- autochthonous Native to the place where found; indigenous.
- native (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
- native A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
Aboriginal — full definition
- adj Relating to the original, native inhabitants of a region, especially before colonization.
- noun (often capitalized, Aboriginal) A member of the indigenous peoples of Australia.
autochthon — full definition
- noun The first or native inhabitant of a place.
- noun A mass of rock that has stayed where it first formed, rather than shifting away as an allochthon does.
- noun In myth, a being said to have grown fully formed straight out of the ground, rock or trees rather than being born, as with the Greek figure Erichthonius.
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