native

Meanings

Adjective

• Belonging to one by birth.
• Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
• Alternate spelling of Native .
• Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
• Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
• Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
• Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
• Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
• Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
• Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

Noun

• A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
• A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternate spelling of Native .
• A native speaker.
• Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.

Related

Similar words

• homeling