What (who) is native - definition
native
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Native (disambiguation)
(natives)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your native country or area is the country or area where you were born and brought up.
It was his first visit to his native country since 1948...
Mother Teresa visited her native Albania.
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
A native of a particular country or region is someone who was born in that country or region.
Dr Aubin is a native of St Blaise.
N-COUNT: N of n
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Native is also an adjective.
Joshua Halpern is a native Northern Californian.
...men and women native to countries such as Japan.
ADJ: ADJ n, v-link ADJ to n
3.
Some European people use native to refer to a person living in a non-Western country who belongs to the race or tribe that the majority of people there belong to. This use could cause offence.
They used force to banish the natives from the more fertile land.
N-COUNT
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Native is also an adjective.
Native people were allowed to retain some sense of their traditional culture and religion.
= indigenous
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
Your native language or tongue is the first language that you learned to speak when you were a child.
She spoke not only her native language, Swedish, but also English and French...
French is not my native tongue.
ADJ: ADJ n
5.
Plants or animals that are native to a particular region live or grow there naturally and were not brought there.
...a project to create a 50 acre forest of native Caledonian pines...
Many of the plants are native to Brazil.
= indigenous
ADJ: ADJ n, v-link ADJ to n
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Native is also a noun.
The coconut palm is a native of Malaysia.
N-COUNT: N of n
6.
A native ability or quality is one that you possess naturally without having to learn it.
We have our native inborn talent, yet we hardly use it.
= innate
ADJ: ADJ n
Native
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Native (disambiguation)
·adj Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
II. Native ·adj Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
III. Native ·adj Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
IV. Native ·adj Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
V. Native ·adj Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.
VI. Native ·noun Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.
VII. Native ·adj Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, ·etc.
VIII. Native ·adj Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born;
- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, ·etc.
IX. Native ·noun One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.
X. Native ·adj Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.
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Native (disambiguation)
I. a.
1.
Natal, of birth.
2.
Vernacular, mother.
3.
Indigenous, natural.
4.
Original, genuine, intrinsic, real, unartificial, natural.
5.
Home, domestic.
6.
Natural, inherent, innate, inborn, inbred, congenital, indigenous.
II. n.
Original inhabitant.
Pronunciation examples for native
1. natives?
Wisdom@Work - The Making of a Modern Elder _ Chip Conley _ Talks at Google
2. native--
Dr. Andrew Jolivétte _ Loving and Pride _ Talks at Google
3. Native, Native Hawaiians, and then one
Creating Access for Our Kids _ David Johns _ Talks at Google
4. non-native into your native language.
Translators _ Michael Erard & Nataly Kelly _ Talks Google
5. native speakers.
Language Hacking _ Benny Lewis _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of native
1. The group works to train Native American candidates and mobilize voters in the Native American community.
2. Economic planners recognize that "native" Europeans need working–age immigrants to support these countries‘ rapidly aging "native" populations.
3. Its native resolution is 1366x768, or around 720p, whereas many higher–end models have a 1080p native resolution.
4. Descriptivism is fine and dandy for theorists and native speakers, but we non–native speakers need good, old fashioned prescriptivism.
5. When Palin this summer fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, a Native, she replaced him with a non–Native.