Native
Meaning of Native
- a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not.
a native of Montreal
an eighteen-year-old Brooklyn native
- associated with the place or circumstances of a person's birth.
he's a native New Yorker
her native country
- (of a plant or animal) of indigenous origin or growth.
eagle owls aren't native to Britain
Scotland's few remaining native pinewoods
- (of a quality) belonging to a person's character from birth; innate.
some last vestige of native wit prompted Guy to say nothing
- (of a metal or other mineral) found in a pure or uncombined state.
- designed for or built into a given system, especially denoting the language associated with a given processor, computer, or compiler, and programs written in it.
late Middle English: from Latin nativus, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci .
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Hyphenation of Native
Na-tive
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- Native is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Native synonyms
Meaning aboriginal:
Meaning indigen:
Meaning a woman in relation to her child or children:
Meaning (of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language:
Meaning of or for use in the home rather than in an industrial or office environment:
Meaning relating to one's own country:
Meaning relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood:
Meaning originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native:
Meaning (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area:
Meaning inborn; natural:
Meaning existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute:
Meaning natural to a person or animal:
Meaning belonging naturally; essential:
Meaning relating to or prompted by instinct; done without conscious thought:
Meaning relating to or denoting an innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour; based on instinct:
Meaning using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive:
Meaning (of a skill or quality) coming instinctively to a person; innate:
Meaning (of a title, office, or right) conferred by or based on inheritance:
Meaning (of money, property, or a title) received as an heir at the death of the previous holder:
Meaning relating to the place or time of one's birth:
Meaning (of a disease or physical abnormality) present from birth:
Meaning existing from birth:
Meaning (of a habit, belief, or attitude) firmly fixed or established; difficult to change:
Meaning (especially of ideas or principles) existing in a person or thing from birth; innate:
Meaning belonging naturally; innate:
Native antonyms
Meaning (of goods or services) brought into a country from abroad for sale:
Meaning buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself:
Meaning (of a person) having acquired much knowledge through study:
Anagrams of Native
Words that rhyme with Native
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