Eora
Speech parts
1. Eora - Noun
2. Eora - Proper noun
Meaning
Eora pl (plural only)
An Australian Aboriginal tribe or clan of the Sydney region and surrounds.
Eora
Their language or dialect.
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Examples
Or the Eora people, whose long watch over the southern shores of Botany Bay was closed out by Arthur Phillip’s order to a young Watkin Tench to lead a punitive raid against the tribe to spread “an exemplary terror among the natives”.
In case you missed it, Australia did a rendition of Advance Australia Fair in the local indigenous Eora language.
"Eora" is the term the indigenous population used to explain their origins upon first contact with the British.
Soon, a virulent disease, smallpox that was believed to be on account of the white settlers, and other European-introduced epidemics, ravaged the Eora population.