Usually means: Indigenous people originating from land.
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  1. autochthones: Merriam-Webster
  2. autochthones: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autochthones: Collins English Dictionary
  4. autochthones: Vocabulary.com
  5. autochthones: Wordnik
  6. autochthones: Wiktionary
  7. Autochthones, autochthones: Dictionary.com
  8. Autochthones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Autochthones: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Autochthones: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. autochthones: FreeDictionary.org
  12. autochthones: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. autochthones: Encyclopedia

(Note: See autochthon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (autochthon)

noun:  (formal) The earliest inhabitant of an area; an aborigine.
noun:  (geology) A large mass of rock in the place of its original formation, rooted to its basement (foundation rock) as opposed to an allochthon or nappe which has shifted from the place of formation; an autochthonous rock formation.
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