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AUTOCHTHON (autochthones)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autochthon mean? 

AUTOCHTHON (noun)
  The noun AUTOCHTHON has 1 sense:

1. the earliest known inhabitants of a regionplay

  Familiarity information: AUTOCHTHON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AUTOCHTHON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The earliest known inhabitants of a region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("autochthon" is a kind of...):

primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)


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