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NATIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indigenous plants and animals
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("native" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An indigenous person who was born in a particular place
Example:
the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
Synonyms:
aboriginal; aborigine; indigen; indigene; native
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("native" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "native"):
Levantine ((formerly) a native or inhabitant of the Levant)
Mauritian (a native or inhabitant of Mauritius)
Filipino (a native or inhabitant of the Philippines)
Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)
Seychellois (a native or inhabitant of Seychelles)
Derivation:
native (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person born in a particular place or country
Example:
he is a native of Brazil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("native" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Belonging to one by birth
Example:
one's native language
Classified under:
Similar:
connatural; inborn; inbred (normally existing at birth)
Antonym:
adopted (acquired as your own by free choice)
Derivation:
nativeness (the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
Example:
many native artists studied abroad
Classified under:
Similar:
autochthonal; autochthonic; autochthonous; endemic; indigenous (originating where it is found)
domestic (produced in a particular country)
homegrown (grown or originating in a particular place)
native-born (belonging to a place by birth)
Antonym:
foreign (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
Derivation:
native (an indigenous person who was born in a particular place)
nativeness (the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
Example:
the aboriginal peoples of Australia
Synonyms:
aboriginal; native
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
nonnative (not being or composed of aborigines)
Derivation:
nativeness (the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin)
Sense 4
Meaning:
As found in nature in the elemental form
Example:
native copper
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
Derivation:
nativeness (the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin)
Context examples:
It appears to be her native part of the country, sir.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Kgala, Tswana natives called it, the great thirst.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
The participants averaged 58 years of age and used English as their native language.
(Brain Mapping of Language Impairments, NIH)
As to the pretence of trying her native air, I look upon that as a mere excuse.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This is because the cerrado is home to some 4,600 native plant species, which no longer exist anywhere else on the planet.
(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)
Key for this model was the ability to grow valve cells in their native healthy form, an important distinction from many previous studies that had focused on already diseased cells.
(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
As she patted the dog's head, bending with native grace before his young and austere master, I saw a glow rise to that master's face.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Increasing native predatory birds in agricultural areas can control insect pests that damage crops, and potentially reduce pesticide use.
(American kestrels, most common predatory birds in U.S., can reduce need for pesticide use, National Science Foundation)
A intraepithelial neoplasia (dysplasia) that arises in either the native gastric mucosa or in metaplastic gastric epithelium.
(Gastric Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
They found that worms migrated at angles consistent with vertical movement in their native soil.
(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)
