native
Belonging to one by birth.
Adjective
- Belonging to one by birth.
- This is my native land.
- English is not my native language.
- I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
- Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
- What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
- Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
- Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
- a native inhabitant
- native oysters or strawberries
- Many native artists studied abroad.
- Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
- The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
- Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
- This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
- The native integer size is sixteen bits.
- cloud native, crypto native
- Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
- native aluminium
- native salt
- Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
- Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. - 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and...
- Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
- native dust
- Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee Native Soile, these happie Walks and Shades, Fit haunt of Gods? - 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by...
- Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
- The head is not more native to the heart, […] Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
Origin
Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif. Displaced native Middle English thedisch, equivalent to (puristic) theed + -ish. By surface analysis, Latin nat- + -ive. Compare also inborn.
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inborn innate aboriginal autochthonous indigenous autochthonal endemic inlandish native
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Noun
- A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
- A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
- Mail trains are limited to first and second class passengers, but on the mixed trains third class is also provided, and this is patronised exclusively by natives. - 1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia...
- Dr John Reid, a historian called to testify for Mr Marshall, distinguished between the fur trade at the truckhouses and a smaller scale trade between natives and settlers: "It seems that there were native persons who...
- As for the wars between natives and settlers, far from having “ceased,” they would continue well into the twentieth century, and over much the same things that had always sparked them—trade, land, and settler arrogance....
- A native speaker.
- A native plant or animal.
Antonyms: exotic
- An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.