NATIVE SPEAKER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood

Example:

native speakers of French

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("native speaker" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

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