native

adjective

1. 1

   Belonging to one by birth or ancestry.

   This is my native land.

   English is not my native language.

   I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…

   In my natyf language I wyl not opres, / More of her werke, for it is obscure; / Who wyl therof knowe all the perfeytnes / In phylosophy he shall fynde it ryght sure, / Whyche all the trouth can to hym discure.

2. 2

   Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.

   Many native artists studied abroad.

   Native peoples in the continental United States are called Native Americans or American Indians.

3. 3

   Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.

   native oysters or strawberries

   Clover is not native to the Americas, but it is firmly established there.

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   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

6. 6

   Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.

   native aluminium

   native salt

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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?

9. 9

   Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

   The head is not more native to the heart, […] Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.

10. 10

    Variant of NativeAlternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).

noun

1. 1

   A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.

2. 2

   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.

   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 were selling small amounts […]"

   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.

3. 3

   A native speaker.

4. 4

   A native plant or animal.

5. 5

   An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.

Forms

plural

natives

comparative

more native

superlative

most native