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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

オーストラロイド

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ōsutoraroido

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Australoid/ˈɔːstrəˌlɔɪd/
adjectivenounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"オーストラロイドは人類学における古い分類用語である。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or characteristic of the indigenous peoples of Australia and certain surrounding regions, formerly classified as a distinct racial type in anthropology.

    "Historical anthropological texts often categorized the native inhabitants of the region using the term Australoid."
As noun
  1. 1

    An individual belonging to the indigenous populations of Australia and parts of Melanesia or South Asia, within the framework of outdated racial classification systems.

    "The classification of populations as Australoid is largely considered scientifically obsolete in modern genetics and anthropology."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'Australia' combined with the Greek suffix '-oid', meaning 'like' or 'resembling'. It originated in 19th-century anthropology and physical geography to describe indigenous populations of Australia and certain related groups in Southeast Asia and South Asia, though the term is now largely obsolete or used with specific historical caveats in modern anthropological contexts.

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