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na·tive (nāt′iv)

adjective

  1. inborn or innate rather than acquired
  2. belonging to a locality or country by birth, production, or growth; indigenous a native Bostonian, native industry, native plants
  3. related to one as, or in connection with, the place of one's birth or origin one's native land, one's native language
  4. simple; natural; free from affectation
  5. as found in nature; natural and not refined, adorned, or altered by man
  6. occurring in a pure state in nature native gold
  7. of or characteristic of the natives, or indigenous inhabitants, of a place
  8. Native American Native land rights

Etymology: ME natyf < MFr natif < L nativus < natus, born: see nature

noun

  1. a person born in the place or country indicated
    1. an original or indigenous inhabitant of a region, as distinguished from an invader, explorer, colonist, etc.
    2. an indigenous plant or animal
  3. a permanent resident, as distinguished from a temporary resident or visitor

native Related Forms
na′·tively adverb na′·tive·ness noun
native Idioms

go native

to adopt the mode of life, often one less complicated, of the native inhabitants

native Synonyms

native

modif.

  1. Natural

    innate, inherent, inborn, implanted, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, congenital, fundamental, hereditary, inherited, essential, constitutional; see also natural 1.

    Antonyms unnatural*, foreign*, alien. *

  2. Originating in or characteristic of a region

    aboriginal, indigenous, endemic, original, native-born, belonging, coming from, autochthonous, autochthonal, primary, primeval, primitive, vernacular, domestic, local, found locally, regional, homegrown, natal, mother, by birth; see also regional.

    Antonyms imported*, brought in, transplanted, foreign.

native applies to a person born, or thing originating, in a certain place or country a native New Yorker, native fruits; indigenous, which also suggests natural origin in a particular region, is applied to races or species rather than to individuals the potato is indigenous to South America; aboriginal applies to the earliest known inhabitants (or, rarely, animals or plants) of a region the Indians are the aboriginal Americans; endemic, applied esp. to plants and diseases, implies prevalence in or restriction to a particular region typhus is endemic in some tropical areas

go native

adopt a different way of life, live simply, vegetate; see change 4.

native Synonyms

native

n.

  1. Aborigine

    aboriginal, autochthon, primitive, ancient, original inhabitant, indigenous inhabitant, tribesman, savage*.

  2. Citizen

    citizen, inhabitant, indigene, local*; see citizen, resident. See syn. study at citizen.

native Telecom Definition
  1. Pertaining to something in its original, natural form. As examples, voice and video are analog in their native forms, whereas computer-to-computer communications are digital.
  2. Referring to program code or an application written for a specific operating environment, such as an operating system (e.g., DOS or UNIX) or processor.
native Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • go: Luckily, I work most closely with great people who, to the large part, haven't " gone native " there.

Adjective modifier

  • hostile: A nine hundred mile trek inland took them through hostile natives, tropical diseases and intense heat.
  • non: These trees are referred to as non native, or aliens.
  • French: IT Help Desk - French & German - Bristol A French native was found for an internal computer helpdesk in a multinational corporation.

Modifies a noun

  • speaker: Chinese native speaker, having good English language skills.
  • tongue: Students not having English as their native tongue must also attain an IELTS score of 7. Duration MSc: 1 year full-time.
  • woodland: In the past five years the group have planted 10 ha of new native woodlands.
  • specie: Higher plant taxonomy Scotland has 1,000 native vascular plant species, many of which are the subject of conservation concern.
  • flora: This part of the garden is for our native flora.
  • tribe: The Pueblo appear to be the oldest of all any Native American tribes in the United States.

Modifying Another Word

  • dear: I know thou wilt go with me, not only over the border of my dear native country but over the border of time.
  • especially: Voyages are especially native americans offering if you wish travel uniworld cruises.
  • once: Since they were once native to this country, wild boar form a natural part of woodland ecology.

Noun used with modifier

  • plant: Litter pick - map area and discuss future options - plant native heathers.
  • tree: Natural carnuba wax is derived from a tree native to Brazil, and is nature's hardest, purest and most transparent wax.

Possessives

  • love: Native's love for at historic towns a casual sport housing beautiful reproductions.

Used with adjective complement

  • buy: You'll be able to buy native Northumberland seed and plants for your garden from Northumberland Wildflowers in our marquee.

Preposition: of

  • dominica: Native of dominica to a rock the interior design.
  • parish: Declaring always that in bestowing said bursaries a preference shall be given to young men natives of the parishes of Crawford and Leadhills.
  • country: Flashy has many a derogatory racial name for the natives of the countries he visits.
native Quotes

If you aren't native to a place you have an excellent chance of becoming a gentleman in it.

—Lamming, George Eric

See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.

—Marvell, Andrew

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

These Mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to beg Sustenance for their helpless Infants; who, as they grow up either turnThieves for want of Work; or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain; or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.

—Swift,Jonathan

Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise¤   de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe¤   du peuple opprime¤  , le distort, le de¤  figure, l'ane¤  antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

—Fanon, Frantz Omar

Speak out, sir, and do not Maister or Campbell meömy foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!

—Scott, Sir Walter

Theactionoftheplay takesplace onanisland intheWest Indies as not yet self-determined by White Mariners. The form of native government is, for the time being, an Empire.

—O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is,'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' Theyare saying, in effect,'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'

—Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it ishis chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

—Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler

My native heath is brown beneath, My native waters blue; But crimson red o'er both shall spread, Ere I am false to you, Dear land! Ere I am false to you.

—O'Hagan,John pseudonym Sliabh Cuilinn

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, becausethey had once belonged somewhere.That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native.

—Stein, Gertrude

The deceased Gentlemanwas, weare informed, a native of Ashbourn, Derbyshire, at which place he was born in theYear of Grace, 217, and was consequently in the 1643rd year of his age. For some months the patriotic Old Man had been suffering from injuries sustained in his native town, so far back as Shrovetide in last year; he was at once removed (byappeal) to London, where he lingered in suspense till the law of death put its icy hand upon him, and claimed as another trophy to magisterial interference one who had long lived in the hearts of the people.

—Anonymous

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

—Sartre,Jean-Paul