Native
An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
Adjective
- Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
- […] when the Treaty of Tordesillas (in Portuguese, Tordesilhas) gave the disgruntled Portuguese the land mass now known as Brazil; and leads us all the way into the twenty—first century, with hosts of unsettled Native...
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(US, Canada) Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.
- Therefore, in 1885 Congress passed the Major Crimes Act whereby jurisdiction in the case of seven major crimes (the list of crimes was later expanded) occurring on Native lands was placed in the hands of federal courts....
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(Australia, New Zealand) Aboriginal; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines.
- He did not ask the Council to sanction the removal of all restrictions on Native lands, but simply asked that such lands as are to be rated under this Bill should have their titles freed in so far as to enable the...
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(South Africa) Related to black Africans, especially Bantu.
Noun
- An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
- […] cachet, Amazon Natives have succeeded in attracting an impressive degree of international support. The catastrophic attrition of Natives in Brazil raises the fundamental question of why the Portuguese took Africans...
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(US, Canada) A Native American.
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(Australia, New Zealand) An Aborigine.
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(South Africa, dated, possibly offensive) A black African, especially a Bantu.
- Thunderstorms have been more frequent, and I regret to say during one last week a Native kraal was struck by lightning, the electric fluid killing three head of cattle; several Natives in a hut received a shock, but...