What is the meaning of aboriginal?

noun

• A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
  • synonyms: Aborigine, Abo, native Australian, Australian Aborigine
• An indigenous person who was born in a particular place.
  • usage: "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"
  • synonyms: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine

adjective

• Of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia.
  • usage: "an Aboriginal rite"
• Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning.
  • usage: "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia"
  • synonyms: native
• Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.
  • usage: "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"
  • synonyms: primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial