Definitions for native

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native na·tive

Spelling: [ney-tiv]

IPA: /ˈneɪ tɪv/

Native is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in native (aeintv).

Definitions for native

noun

1. Sometimes Offensive. one of the people indigenous to a place or country, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.:
2. a person born in a particular place or country:
3. an organism indigenous to a particular region.
4. British. an oyster reared in British waters, especially in an artificial bed.
5. Astrology. a person born under a particular planet.

Idioms

1. go native, Informal: Sometimes Offensive. to adopt the way of life of a place or environment that is different from one's own (sometimes used facetiously):

adjective

1. being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being:
2. belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent:
3. belonging by birth to a people regarded as indigenous to a certain place, especially a preliterate people:
4. of indigenous origin, growth, or production:
5. of, relating to, or characteristic of the indigenous inhabitants of a place or country:
6. born in a particular place or country:
7. of or relating to a language acquired by a person before or to the exclusion of any other language:
8. pertaining to or characteristic of a person using his or her native language:
9. under the rule of natives:
10. occupied by natives:
11. remaining or growing in a natural state; unadorned or unchanged:
12. forming the source or origin of a person or thing:
13. originating naturally in a particular country or region, as animals or plants.
14. found in nature rather than produced artificially, as a mineral substance:
15. Chemistry, Mineralogy. (of metals) occurring in nature pure or uncombined:
16. belonging to a person as a birthright:
17. Digital Technology. of or relating to software designed specifically for the platform on which it is running: of or relating to data interpreted or displayed by the software or hardware for which it was originally encoded:
18. Archaic. closely related, as by birth.

Origin of native

1325-75; Latin nātīvus inborn, natural, equivalent to nāt(us) (past participle of nāscī to be born) + -īvus -ive; replacing Middle English

Examples for native

Hornbuckle, on the other hand, says the policy will not put native American nations in danger.

While the Clovis, California native may not have completely believed that, he wasn't about to sit around and find out.

While still relatively unknown stateside, Bellucci is a reigning vixen in France and her native Italy.

Would you not like to be buried with regal honour, in your native Clazomenæ?

He had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend early that morning in Baltimore and headed for his native Brooklyn.

They were conducted entirely in Hebrew, a language the U.S. native does not speak, although he was provided a translator.

In most parts of Mesopotamia it was understood as readily as the native tongue.

Windich found a native spring about a mile to the North-East.

Further, the native who gave all the information to Mr. Monger was one of our party.

There was, however, one exception, and that was his friend Windich (native).