autochthon
noun
an aboriginal inhabitant.
autochthons
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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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Lost to the familiar, Age moved us out of living memory, unlike those tribes, the autochthons who saw the earths infancy still.
From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver
In a foregoing chapter I stated that the Japanese, whatever ethnological interpretation be given to them, can hardly be considered as autochthons.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
But very little indeed is known about these supposed autochthons, except that they were very small in stature, and that this pigmy race receded and vanished before the advancing Ainu.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
