native speaker

noun

: a person who learned to speak the language of the place where he or she was born as a child rather than learning it as a foreign language

a native speaker of Swahili

That kind of mistake is rarely made by native speakers.

Examples of native speaker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sound more like a native speaker and be confident when interacting with others. — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 11 May 2023

García, who lives in Perú, is the last living native speaker of his language, Taushiro. — Anesce Dremen, Longreads, 3 July 2025

For anyone, native speaker or not, this book offers a pleasurable and humorous voyage of discovery. — Peter Trudgill, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021

When a character speaks Persian, the English that is heard is natural and relaxed, the sound of a native speaker. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026

The messages, viewed by The New York Times, were all written in Russian, apparently by a native speaker well versed in vulgar slang. — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023

Each of those 51 legally vetted names then underwent global market research and a native speaker check, while Landor was tasked with developing 51 unique visual identities. — Anthony Shore, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025

Her interest in cooking was inspired by her grandmother, a native speaker of Patuá—a mix of Portuguese, Cantonese, and other languages found along the Portuguese trade routes—who was tasked with feeding a family of 14. — Austin Bush, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2025

Gomez, who is not a native speaker, plays Jessi del Monte in Jacques Audiard’s musical crime drama about a drug lord who escapes his life of brutality to transition in secret with the help of a sentimental lawyer (Zoe Saldana). — Jack Dunn, Variety, 8 Dec. 2024

Rhymes for native speaker

• beaker
• meeker
• seeker
• sneaker
• weaker
• loudspeaker