Native

Adjective

 * 1) Belonging to one by birth.
 * This is my native land.
 * English is not my native language.
 * I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
 * 1) Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
 * What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
 * The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.
 * 1)  Of or relating to North American Indians or Aboriginal people.
 * 2) Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin.
 * Many native artists studied abroad.
 * 1)  Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.
 * The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
 * 1)  Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
 * This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
 * The native integer size is sixteen bits.
 * 1)  Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.

Antonyms

 * foreign

Derived terms

 * go native


 * native soil


 * native wit

Noun

 * 1) A person who is native to a place (literal or metaphoric).
 * 2) * She is a regular Wiki* native.
 * 3)  A North American Indian or Aboriginal person.
 * 4) Sometimes used pejoratively against indigenous peoples by their colonizers.
 * 5) * Some natives must have stolen our cattle.

Thesaurus
aboriginal, aborigine, agrarian, arcadian, artless, atavistic, autochthon, autochthonous, basic, best, bodily, born, bucolic, by birth, candid, citizen, clan, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, crude, direct, domestic, earliest inhabitant, endemic, ethnic, exclusive, first, first comer, genetic, genuine, hereditary, home, homebred, homegrown, homespun, honest, impure, in the blood, in the raw, inartificial, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigene, indigenous, indwelling, inhabitant, inherent, inherited, inland, innate, instinctive, instinctual, internal, intestine, intrinsic, local, local yokel, municipal, natal, national, native to, native-born, natural, natural to, naturelike, organic, original, pastoral, physical, primal, primitive, primitive settler, pristine, provincial, raw, resident, run-of-mine, rural, straightforward, temperamental, tribal, unacquired, unadorned, unaffected, unartificial, unassuming, uncultivated, undesigning, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating, undomesticated, unembellished, unfeigning, ungraded, unpretending, unpretentious, unsorted, unspoiled, unsullied, untouched, unvarnished, vernacular, virgin, virginal

Etymology
From natif, from  nativus, from natus, ‘birth’.

Adjective

 * Albanian: amëtar
 * Armenian:, մայրենի
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: moeder-, geboorte-,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: syntyperäinen, synnyin synnyinmaa, äidin äidinkieli
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: γενέθλιος,
 * Hungarian: születésű
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: starosedeoc, samorodan, рођени
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: జన్మస్థలం


 * Albanian:
 * Chinese: 土着 (tǔzhù)
 * Dutch:, ingeboren, , geboren en getogen
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese: 土着の (dochaku-no)
 * Romanian: originar, originară
 * Russian: коренной
 * Serbian: starosedeoc, samorodan
 * Spanish:


 * Albanian: vendës
 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 本地的 (běndì de)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ντόπιος, ιθαγενής
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 自国の (じこくの, jikoku no)
 * Korean: 토산의 (tosanui)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: localnic, localnică
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Albanian:
 * Chinese: 本地的 (běndì de)
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch:


 * : nativ
 * : nativo


 * : nativ
 * : nativo, oriundo

Noun

 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:


 * Finnish: paikallinen asukas
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: inboorling,


 * Finnish:


 * : nativo


 * : băştinaş

Anagrams

 * enviât, vanité, veinât, venait

Adjective
native


 * 1) Feminine plural form of nativo

Noun
native



Anagrams

 * aventi
 * avinte
 * evinta
 * venati

Adjective
native