native

Plural: natives

Noun

• An indigenous person or animal from a particular place.
• an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
  • "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"
• a person born in a particular place or country
  • "he is a native of Brazil"
• indigenous plants and animals
• 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).
• A native speaker.
• An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.

Adjective

• characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
  • "the native North American sugar maple"
  • "many native artists studied abroad"
• belonging to one by birth
  • "my native land"
  • "one's native language"
• characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
  • "native Americans"

Adjective Satellite

• as found in nature in the elemental form
  • "native copper"

Adj

• Belonging to one by birth.
• Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
• 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.
• Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
• Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
• Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
• Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
• Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
• Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

Examples

• a native inhabitant
• As a native of word games, he instinctively knew where to place the high-scoring tiles.
• cloud native, crypto native
• English is not my native language.
• I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
• Many native artists studied abroad.
• native aluminium
• native dust
• native oysters or strawberries
• native salt
• The native integer size is sixteen bits.
• The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
• This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
• This is my native land.
• What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.

Synonyms

aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene, autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, homeling, inborn, indigenous, inlandish, innate, native

Antonyms

adopted, foreign, nonnative, allochthonous, fremd, naturalized

Related Words

ancient, first, local, native cat, nativisation, nativity, nativization, natural, primitive

Anagrams of native