Meaning

Belonging to one by birth..

Definitions by Sense

1. Belonging to one by birth.
2. Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
4. Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
5. (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
6. (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
7. (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
8. Arising by birth; having an origin; born.

Example Sentences

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.

The Language I haue learn’d these forty yeares (My natiue English) now I must forgo.

Thy sentence…robs my tongue from breathing natiue breath.

They have a native language of their owne, but the Persian tongue is understood by most.

Happy the man, whose wish and care / A few paternal acres bound, / Content to breathe his native air / In his own ground.

Word Forms

• more native
• most native
• natiue
• natyf
• natives

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When Should You Use Native?

Use native when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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