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native-speaker

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Of, relating to, or characteristic of native speakers.

not-comparable

Examples

“Nevertheless, a certain amount of schizophrenia pertains to the study⟳ of World Englishes as New Englishes, for while new Englishes are regarded as valid varieties in their own⟳ right, the description and delineation of them in linguistic terms is conducted through the gaze of native-speaker norms.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

native-speaking native; indigenous nativelike nativist nativistic natl.

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