Native
['neɪtɪv] or ['netɪv]
Definition
(noun.) indigenous plants and animals.
(noun.) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; 'the art of the natives of the northwest coast'; 'the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students'.
(noun.) a person born in a particular place or country; 'he is a native of Brazil'.
(adj.) belonging to one by birth; 'my native land'; 'one's native language' .
(adj.) characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin; 'the native North American sugar maple'; 'many native artists studied abroad' .
(adj.) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; 'native Americans'; 'the aboriginal peoples of Australia' .
(adj.) as found in nature in the elemental form; 'native copper' .
Edited by Andrea--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.
(a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.
(a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.
(a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc.
(a.) Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
(a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
(a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
(n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.
(n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.
Checker: Shelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Natal, of birth.[2]. Vernacular, VULGAR, mother.[3]. Indigenous, natural, congenital, original, genuine, intrinsic, real, unartificial, home-bred, not acquired, bred in the bone, that runs in the blood.
n. Original inhabitant.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Indigenous, home, exported, artless, natural, proper, suitable, congenital,inbred, vernacular
ANT:Foreign, Imported, exotic, alien, artificial, acquired, assumed, affected
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Definition
adj. arising or appearing by birth: produced by nature: pertaining to the time or place of birth: belonging by birth hereditary natural original: occurring uncombined with other substances as metals.—n. one born in any place: an original inhabitant: (pl.) oysters raised in artificial beds.—adv. Nā′tively.—ns. Nā′tiveness; Nā′tivism the belief that the mind possesses some ideas or forms of thought that are inborn and not derived from sensation: the disposition to favour the natives of a country in preference to immigrants; Nā′tivist.—adj. Nativis′tic.—n. Nativ′ity state or fact of being born: time place and manner of birth: the birth of Christ hence the festival of His birth Christmas—also a picture representing His birth: state or place of being produced: a horoscope.—Native rock stone not yet quarried.
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Examples
- They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Almost all countries exchange with one another, partly native and partly foreign goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You had mentioned Geneva as the name of your native town; and towards this place I resolved to proceed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I have never yet been ten miles from my native place, and I want to see the world. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This was no more than a sort of native bonne, in a common-place bonne's cap and print-dress. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But if he has this native equipment, its possession in no way guarantees that he will ever talk any language or what language he will talk. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I therefore myself dismissed the contractor and made a new contract with a native, at more than double the original price. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,' said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Most of the remainder of children's alleged native egoism is simply an egoism which runs counter to an adult's egoism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The greater part thought it a judgment of God, to prevent or punish our emigration from our native land. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He rated him as a first-class hand; and yet he felt a secret dislike to him,--the native antipathy of bad to good. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Roebling, a native of Prussia, born there in 1806, and who died in New York in 1869. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They are natives of the southeast of Asia and are remarkable for their pugnacious propensities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They saw no signs of natives nor were they molested by wild beasts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- On these the natives raise melons, cucumbers and other vegetables which need much water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Here the natives work under pleasant climatic conditions and the trees under cultivation grow better and yield better than in the forest. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My dear Vermont, you natives up by the North Pole set an extravagant value on time! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The natives build their huts out of small poles covered with palm thatch and live in little colonies while the rubber harvest is going on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Let us see the natives in their aboriginal condition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In Australia the problem of the transmission to the natives of various diseases, even by Europeans in apparent health, confronted his intelligence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On the fourth day, venturing out early a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height not above five hundred yards from me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It MUST be very good of Mrs. Jellyby to take such pains about a scheme for the benefit of natives--and yet--Peepy and the housekeeping! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is left on shore, is seized by one of the natives, and carried to a farmer's house. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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