being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent: native ability;native grace.
belonging by birth to a people regarded as indigenous to a certain place, especially a preliterate people: Native guides accompanied the expedition through the rainforest.
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of indigenous origin, growth, or production: native pottery.
of, relating to, or characteristic of the Indigenous inhabitants of a place or country: native customs;native dress.
born in a particular place or country: a native New Yorker.
of or relating to a language acquired by a person before or to the exclusion of any other language: Her native language is Greek.
pertaining to or characteristic of a person using his or her native language: a native speaker of English;native command of a language.
under the rule of natives: a native government.
occupied by natives: the native quarter of Algiers.
remaining or growing in a natural state; unadorned or unchanged: the native beauty of a desert island.
forming the source or origin of a person or thing: He returned to his native Kansas.
originating naturally in a particular country or region, as animals or plants: Hundreds of species of plants and trees native to central Texas are displayed and nurtured in the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, south of Austin.
found in nature rather than produced artificially, as a mineral substance: the difference between native and industrial diamonds.
Chemistry, Mineralogy. occurring in nature pure or uncombined: native copper.
belonging to a person as a birthright: to deprive a person of his native rights.
Digital Technology. of or relating to software designed specifically for the platform on which it is running: native applications for 64-bit PCs;native mobile apps.of or relating to data interpreted or displayed by the software or hardware for which it was originally encoded: to view the file in its native format.
Archaic. closely related, as by birth.
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Sometimes Offensive. one of the people indigenous to a place or country, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.: the natives of Chile.
a person born in a particular place or country: a native of Ohio.
an organism indigenous to a particular region.
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British. an oyster reared in British waters, especially in an artificial bed.
Astrology. a person born under a particular planet: Capricorn natives are practical, collected, and reliable allies to have in a crisis.
The 23-year-old, a native of Panama, has been really sharp since starting 2018 with the Suns.
Helicopters are nearly as native to the nation’s capital as go-go and half-smokes.
These native apps really allow you to see what the M1 can do.
He has been a journalist for more than 40 years, working for newspapers in Hawaii, California, Florida and his native Guam.
Pauline Binam is from Cameroon in Central Africa, and she has many native sisters in similar circumstances here, encountering similar travails under the administration’s hardline immigration policies.
Moreover, a man who spoke the language natively had great advantage over us, both in preaching and pastoral work.
My mother's side of those long months of waiting was never fully delineated, for she was natively reticent and shy of expression.
War is thus seen to be a function of social institutions, not of what is natively fixed in human constitution.
She was of her world and time, not unsophisticated; but it chanced that she possessed a mind natively maiden.
How this thus falling short of a natively richly endowed soul became possible, can be told only from a study of his life.