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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈneɪtɪv/
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- (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈneɪtəv/
- IPA(key): /ˈneɪtɪv/
- Rhymes: -eɪtɪv
- Hyphenation: na‧tive
Adjective[edit]
native (comparative more native, superlative most native)
- 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.
- The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.
- 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.
- (biology, of a species) 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.
- (computing, of software) 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.
- (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
- native aluminium, native salt
- Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
- Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
- Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
- native dust
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Thus leave Thee, native Soil , these happy Walks and Shades
- Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- The head is not more native to the heart, […] / Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
Synonyms[edit]
- (belonging to one by birth): inborn, innate; See also Thesaurus:innate
- (born or grown in the region in which it is found): aboriginal, autochthonous, indigenous; See also Thesaurus:native
Antonyms[edit]
- (born or grown in the region in which it is found): foreign, fremd; See also Thesaurus:foreign
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
belonging to one by birth
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characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
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characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
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biology: which occurs of its own accord in a given locality
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computing: pertaining to a particular system
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Noun[edit]
native (plural natives)
- A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
- (in particular) 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).
- 1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:
- 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.
- 2009, Alex M. Cameron, Power without Law: The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP (→ISBN):
- 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 […] "
- 2013, James Ciment, Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It, Hill and Wang (→ISBN), page 72:
- 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.
- Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.
Usage notes[edit]
- In North America, native/Native came into use as an umbrella term for the indigenous inhabitants of America as Indian began to fall out of formal usage (because it originated from Columbus's mistaken belief that he was in India and the people he encountered were Indians). Other designations include Native American, Native Canadian, and American Indian. In Canada, the terms include Inuit and Metis and the adjectives First Nation/First Nations.
Synonyms[edit]
- homeling (uncommon, obsolete)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
person who is native to a place
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person of aboriginal stock
native speaker — see native speaker
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- native at OneLook Dictionary Search
- native in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "native" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 215.
- native in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
native
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
native
Noun[edit]
native f pl
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /naːˈtiː.u̯e/, [näːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /naˈti.ve/, [näˈt̪iːvɛ]
Adjective[edit]
nātīve
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
native
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