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Definition of native
(Entry 1 of 2)
2 : belonging to a particular place by birth
a native New Yorker
3 archaic : closely related
4 : belonging to or associated with one by birth
hailed in his native Sweden as an influential dramatist— William Peden
6a : grown, produced, or originating in a particular place or in the vicinity : local native fruits and vegetables
b : living or growing naturally in a particular region : indigenous native wildlife of Australia
7 : simple, unaffected our feeling still native and entire, unsophisticated by pedantry— Edmund Burke
8a : constituting the original substance or source
the way I must return to native dust— John Milton
b : found in nature especially in an unadulterated form
mining native silver
9 chiefly Australia : having a usually superficial (see superficial sense 2) resemblance to a specified English plant or animal
10 capitalized : of, relating to, or being a member of an indigenous people of North or South America : native american
native
nounDefinition of native (Entry 2 of 2)
1 : one born or reared in a particular place
2a : an original or indigenous inhabitant
b : something indigenous to a particular locality
3 : a local resident especially : a person who has always lived in a place as distinguished from a visitor or a temporary resident
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