Native

  • 31native — noun 1》 a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth.     ↘a local inhabitant. 2》 an animal or plant indigenous to a place. 3》 dated, often offensive a non white original inhabitant of a country as regarded by European… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 32native — 1. noun a native of Sweden Syn: inhabitant, resident, local, citizen, national, countryman Ant: foreigner 2. adjective 1) the native population Syn: indigenous, original 2) …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 33native — 1. adjective /ˈneɪtɪv/ a) Belonging to one by birth. This is my native land. b) Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times. English is not my native language. Ant …

    Wiktionary

  • 34Native — 1Na|tive [ neitiv] der; s, s <aus gleichbed. engl. native zu lat. nativus, vgl. ↑nativ> Eingeborener (bes. der ehemaligen britischen Kolonien). Native 2 2Na|tive die; , s <zu engl. native »natürlich gewachsen«; vgl. ↑nativ> nicht in… …

    Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • 35Native — Na|tive 〈[nɛıtıv]〉 I 〈m. 6〉 Eingeborener (der brit. Kolonien) II 〈f. 10; meist Pl.〉 Auster, die nicht in Austernbänken gezüchtet wurde [engl.] * * * Native   [ neɪtɪv, englisch] der, s/ s, Eingeborener, besonders der ehemaligen britischen… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 36native — Synonyms and related words: aboriginal, aborigine, agrarian, arcadian, artless, atavistic, autochthon, autochthonous, basic, best, bodily, born, bucolic, by birth, candid, citizen, clan, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 37native — [14] Native is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to the Latin verb nāscī. This meant ‘be born’, and was a descendant of the Indo European base *gen , *gn ‘produce’, which also gave English gene, general, generate, etc …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 38native — [14] Native is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to the Latin verb nāscī. This meant ‘be born’, and was a descendant of the Indo European base *gen , *gn ‘produce’, which also gave English gene, general, generate, etc …

    Word origins

  • 39native — 1) organisms historically indigenous to an area, e.g. native trout for Salvelinus fontinalis as opposed to the introduced brown trout Salmo trutta 2) a species that is a member of the natural community …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 40native — na·tive nāt iv adj 1) belonging to or associated with one by birth 2) living or growing naturally in a particular region 3 a) constituting the original substance or source b) found in nature esp. in an unadulterated form <conversion of a… …

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