autochthon
noun
an aboriginal inhabitant.
autochthones
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pluralof autochthon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But now that there is evidence to indicate that the Terran Colony was an experiment, the planting of one Hainish Normal group on a world with its own proto-hominid autochthones, the possibility cannot be ignored.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
McGinnis was not actually a newcomer at Heart's Desire, but upon the contrary one of the autochthones of that now decadent community.
From Heart's Desire by Emerson Hough
When occupied of a mellow October afternoon by a party of the autochthones, in their pea-jackets of blue or hickory homespun, it presents a gay and cheery spectacle.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various
In his sources of information Tacitus found nothing to hinder him from assuming as probable the view he expresses—that the Teutons were aborigines, autochthones, fostered on the soil which was their fatherland.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
As a rule the European peoples regarded themselves in antiquity as autochthones if they did not look upon themselves as immigrants from regions within Europe to the territories they inhabited in historic times.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
