Meaning of native | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Belonging to one by birth.
2. Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
   not-comparable
3. native of a place
4. Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.
   Canada, US, not-comparable
5. Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
6. Aboriginal; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines.
   Australia, New-Zealand, not-comparable
7. Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
   alt-of
8. Related to black Africans, especially Bantu.
   South-Africa, not-comparable
9. Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
10. Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
11. Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
12. Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
13. Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
14. Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
15. Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Those of the western church were obliged to acquire some knowledge of Latin; and for Greek, to those of the eastern church it was still (with a few corruptions) their native language.”

“[…] But to the Snake those accents sweet were known / His native tongue and hers; […]”

“Their habits, as we can see them transacted, are native.”

“His name has been metamorphosed in Syria and Egypt into the more native-sounding Abulides.”

“They were dressed in their native costumes.”

“What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.”

“a native inhabitant”

“native oysters or strawberries”

“Many native artists studied abroad.”

“The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.”

“This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.”

“The native integer size is sixteen bits.”

“cloud native, crypto native”

“native aluminium”

“native salt”

“Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.”

“native dust”

“Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee Native Soile, these happie Walks and Shades, Fit haunt of Gods?”

“The head is not more native to the heart, […] Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.”

“[…] when the Treaty of Tordesillas (in Portuguese, Tordesilhas) gave the disgruntled Portuguese the land mass now known as Brazil; and leads us all the way into the twenty—first century, with hosts of unsettled Native land claims […]”

“Therefore, in 1885 Congress passed the Major Crimes Act whereby jurisdiction in the case of seven major crimes (the list of crimes was later expanded) occurring on Native lands was placed in the hands of federal courts.”

“He did not ask the Council to sanction the removal of all restrictions on Native lands, but simply asked that such lands as are to be rated under this Bill should have their titles freed in so far as to enable the Native owners to lease those lands and obtain some benefit therefrom.”

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