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Meaning native meaning

What does native mean?

Definitions in simple English

native Adjective

— If something is native, it belongs to you by birth. This is my native land. English is not my native language. I'm a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn. — If a group of people are native to an area, they have been there since the beginning. The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.

native Noun

— A person who is native to a place; the word is sometimes used by colonizers to negatively describe indigenous people. Some natives must have stolen our cattle. — A native is someone who was born in the place being talked about. To enter the state beauty contest, you must be a native of the state.

native

— adjective characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin the native North American sugar maple many native artists studied abroad — noun (= 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 — adjective belonging to one by birth my native land one's native language — adjective (= aboriginal) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning native Americans the aboriginal peoples of Australia — adjective as found in nature in the elemental form native copper — noun a person born in a particular place or country he is a native of Brazil — noun indigenous plants and animals

Synonyms native synonyms

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native English » English

indigenous aboriginal inborn innate aborigine natural local inbred congentital autochthonous resident inhabitant indigene citizen original inherent indigenous person endemic domestic native-born native of indigen vernacular tobacco primitive own natal instinctive home residents regional primordial original inhabitant old-stock indugenous immanent congenital cat by birth born autochthonal Indian welfare unaffected unadorned tradition tawny-moor subject spontaneous son

Topics native topics

What do people use native to talk about?

Social behavior Government

Citizen

What words refer to a citizen of a country?

citizen naturalized citizen native subject countryman inhabitant

Language and thought Communication

Language

What words refer to the first language you learned as a child?

first language mother-tongue native speaker

Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Race

What words refer to a person's race on the basis of where their ancestors were from?

Aborigine African Arab Asian American Indian Caucasian Hispanic Indian Latin American Native American

Examples native examples

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Simple sentences

He returned to his native village.

Our native language is Japanese.

This sentence needs to be checked by a native speaker.

Tom can speak French like a native.

Tom speaks French like a native.

I doubt whether a native speaker would express himself this way.

Tom is a native Esperanto speaker.

French is my native tongue.

I wanted to practice speaking French with native speakers.

I admire native speakers of English who are learning Czech.

My native language is Czech.

Tom is beginning to forget his native language.

Being a native doesn't mean that you won't commit mistakes.

Tom said that English wasn't his native language.

We had native guides on our trip to the mountain.

English is not my native language.

Spanish is her native language.

Julia's native language is Italian.

This book is for students whose native language is not Japanese.

I returned to my native village after two years' absence.

To hear him speak English, you would take him for a native speaker.

He speaks English like a native.

He returned to his native village, where he spent the last few years of his life.

He left his native village never to return.

She can't even speak her native language without making mistakes.

She is a native speaker of French.

She speaks English as if she were a native speaker.

Unable to prove his innocence, he was forced to leave his native town.

Such ability is native to him.

Georgia is his native state.

He was never to return to his native country again.

Movie subtitles

It looks like it's native, handmade.

The sun did not rise yet - red guerrillas left the village, abandoned their native village to the villain Pavlo.

Then he must have brought his native soil with him, boxes of it.

Knowing a vampire must rest by day in his native soil, I am convinced that this Dracula is no legend. but an undead creature whose life has been unnaturally prolonged.

He must return to his native land, which is where he was buried.

Now, Count Dracula's native land is Transylvania.

Then he must have brought some of his native soil with him.

Only native-born south sea islanders. appear in this picture with a few half-castes and chinese.

It occured while most of the people were ashore at one of their native peasts.

An enormous man-eating shark guards these pearls the native believe.

Your native Egypt.

Some native superstition, isn't it?

Me find on deck. - A native bracelet.

Dying native I picked up at sea.

You'll remain incognito in the native city.

He defends mercenaries, adventurers and deportees who come to Algeria to exploit native labor!

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed.

And knowing that a vampire must rest by day in his native soil, I am convinced that this Dracula is no legend but an undead creature whose life has been unnaturally prolonged.

Women don't belong here, white or native.

If they're native, one of them is bound to drift from the coolies' quarters, and end up waiting on you at breakfast. And that's curtains for a man in this country.

Unless one had seen him on the stage in his native England, or in New York, the unique and commanding texture of his vocal delivery would be a new experience for movie-goers at that time.

A native bracelet.

Why, she speaks French just like a native, don't you, Lily?

You know, like the native Americans do.

You're just in time to see a big native funeral!

I worry, especially with rumors that there. conflicts with the native tribes.

The native authorities are afraid to meddle.

In my native country, at first, as a hobby.

They're the exclusive domain of native women.

Oh, practically a native.

The native boatmen won't tie up there after dark.

With your head in a native girl's lap?

He must be getting fed up with his native land.

It doesn't match a native funeral, with Buddhist monks playing tambourines.

They say all native Californians come from Iowa.

And let us fear the native mightiness and fate of him.

Edward the Third, he bids you then resign your crown and kingdom, indirectly held from him, the native and true challenger.

News and current affairs

A different kind of revolution was taking place in Europe's former colonies in Asia, where native peoples had no desire to be ruled once more by Western powers, which had been so ignominiously defeated by Japan.

Throughout this period, the brightest students were drawn away from their native lands, attracted by superior research universities and opportunities.

Nonetheless, this is Adolf Hitler's native land, where Jews were once forced to scrub Vienna's streets with toothbrushes before being deported and killed, so the result is disturbing.

The same strict firing laws and high levels of minimum wages that are intended to protect native French workers from globalization make it much more difficult for newcomers to land jobs.

The first has been around for centuries: the social divisions that trace their origins back to the European conquest over Native Americans in the sixteenth century.

In the United Kingdom, a large group of immigrants thus share with native Britons the right to participate in public debates on all matters of general interest, whether local or national.

Wars of conquest, territorial acquisition, continental surveying, and canal and then railroad subsidies were good for voters, immigrants, and pretty much everyone else except the outnumbered and outgunned Native Americans who got in the way.

Instead of showing solidarity, they moralize, as though all of the problems in Mediterranean Europe were the result of native laziness or its citizens' corrupt nature.

A month before, it seems safe to assume, many of these people had never heard of his native land, a landlocked African nation of about 13 million people bordering Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania.

As he explained in his memoir Dreams from My Father, visiting his father's native Kenya for the first time made him feel more American - and less African - than ever.

Except for a small number of Native Americans, everyone is originally from somewhere else, and even recent immigrants can rise to top economic and political roles.

Fertility rates among immigrants are typically higher than in native European or North American families.

Of course, migration creates real challenges for communities and can lead to job losses and lower wages for native workers.

In addition, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of native Haitian NGOs.

When humans began to move out of Africa, they carried some of their pathogens to new areas, where they switched over to native hosts while native pathogens took up residence in the newly arrived humans.

SANTO DOMINGO - I am a native-born citizen of the Dominican Republic.

German, the EU's most widely spoken native language, hardly makes a dent.

From the beginning, there was no intention to damage the identity of the native-born Arabs, or to merge it with the traditional Jewish identity.

But the American national drama is the drama of immigration: everyone, except Native Americans, came from somewhere else.

The British, who did not depose the Malay rulers as they did the Singhalese king in Kandy, made sure that the native position of the Malays was constitutionally secure from the start.

The debate in my native Denmark is instructive, as the relevant government ministries have outlined what this decision will end up costing here, which in turn suggests the total cost for the EU.

My native Taiwan is now a high-income economy.

Although they are physically a fantasy sci-fi mix of blue skin and cat-like movement, they are culturally a mix of Native Americans and Vietnamese, with Arabic accents thrown in.

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