Native

adjective

1. 1

   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 land claims […]

2. 2

   Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.) 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.

3. 3

   Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.) 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 Native owners to lease those lands and obtain some benefit therefrom.

4. 4

   Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.) Related to black Africans, especially Bantu.

noun

1. 1

   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 there at all. […]

2. 2

   An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.) A Native American.

3. 3

   An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.) An Aborigine.

4. 4

   datedAn aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.) 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 happily no further injury.

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Natives