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 Definitions of native  [ˈneɪ tɪv]  

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Definition of 'native' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) native
being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being:
one's native land.

2.  native
belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent:
native ability.

3.  native
belonging to or originating in a certain place; indigenous:
native dress.

4.  native
born in a particular place:
a native Chicagoan.

5.  native
of or pertaining to something first acquired by a person:
one's native language.

6.  native
remaining or growing in a natural state:
the desert's native beauty.

7.  native
originating naturally in a particular country or region, as animals or plants.

8.  native
(of metals) occurring in nature pure or uncombined.

9.  native
designed for use with a specific type of computer:
writing native applications for 32-bit PCs.

10.  native
internal to a specific application program:
to view the file in its native format.

11.  native
Archaic. closely related, as by birth.

12.  native
a person born in a particular place or country:
a native of Ohio.

13.  native
an animal, plant, etc., that is indigenous to a particular region.


Definition of 'native' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
"the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"

2. (noun) native
a person born in a particular place or country
"he is a native of Brazil"

3. (adj) native
indigenous plants and animals

4. (adj) native
characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
"the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"

5. (adj) native
belonging to one by birth
"my native land"; "one's native language"

6. (adj) native, aboriginal
characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
"native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia"

7. (adj) native
as found in nature in the elemental form
"native copper"


Definition of 'native' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) native
having been born in a place
a native Texan

2.  native
(of plants, animals, or people) having always lived in a place
the native population; plants native to the region

3. (noun) native
sb who was born in a place
a native of Mississippi


Definition of 'native' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) native
arising by birth; having an origin; born

2. (adj) native
of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc

3. (adj) native
born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries

4. (adj) native
original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust

5. (adj) native
conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc

6. (adj) native
naturally related; cognate; connected (with)

7. (adj) native
found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver

8. (adj) native
found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride

9. (noun) native
one who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France

10. (noun) native
any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds


Translation of 'native' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: where one was born
my native land.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vaderland Arabic flag Arabic: وَطَني، مكان المَوْلِد Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: роден
Brazilian flag Brazilian: natal Czech flag Czech: rodný German flag German: Heimat-...
Danish flag Danish: føde-; hjem- Greek flag Greek: γενέθλιος Spanish flag Spanish: natal
Estonian flag Estonian: sünni- Farsi flag Farsi: محلی Finnish flag Finnish: synnyin-
French flag French: natal Hebrew flag Hebrew: מְקוֹמִי Hindi flag Hindi: देशी
Croatian flag Croatian: rodno mjesto Hungarian flag Hungarian: születési (hely), szülő(f Indonesian flag Indonesian: asal
Icelandic flag Icelandic: uppruna-, fæðingar- Italian flag Italian: natale, natio Japanese flag Japanese: 出生の
Korean flag Korean: 출생지의 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: gimtasis Latvian flag Latvian: dzimtais
Malay flag Malay: tempat asal Dutch flag Dutch: geboorte- Norwegian flag Norwegian: føde-, hjem-
Polish flag Polish: ojczysty Persian flag Persian: ،وطن محلی Pashto flag Pashto: اصلى ټاټوبى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: natal Romanian flag Romanian: natal Russian flag Russian: родной
Slovak flag Slovak: rodný Slovenian flag Slovenian: rojsten Serbian flag Serbian: rodni
Swedish flag Swedish: födelse- Thai flag Thai: แต่กำเนิด Turkish flag Turkish: ana, yerli
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 出生所在的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: рідний Urdu flag Urdu: آبائی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: quê hương Chinese flag Chinese: 出生的

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