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Native   /nˈeɪtɪv/   Listen
Native

adjective
1.
Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin.  "Many native artists studied abroad"
2.
Belonging to one by birth.  "One's native language"
3.
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning.  Synonym: aboriginal.  "The aboriginal peoples of Australia"
4.
As found in nature in the elemental form.
noun
1.
An indigenous person who was born in a particular place.  Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene.  "The Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"
2.
A person born in a particular place or country.
3.
Indigenous plants and animals.



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"Native" Quotes from Famous Books



... appetites generally, may with difficulty credit the fact that in those districts in which the bird is recognised as a trustworthy guide it is honoured, and under no circumstances will they kill it. Of course, the blacks of North Queensland in native worth have not much art in the killing of birds, but in ...
— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield
... Columbia, Who guard our native coast, Whose fathers won your liberty, Your country's pride and boast; Your glorious standard rear again, To match your ancient foe, As she roars on your shores, Where the stormy tempests blow; As she prowls for prey on every shore, Where the stormy ...
— The Yankee Tea-party - Or, Boston in 1773 • Henry C. Watson
... "I had forgotten you were a native of this land. Well, here's hoping nothing happens before Secretary Daniels takes all ...
— The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets - The Fall of the German Navy • Robert L. Drake
... as naive and awkward as is always the singing of English hymns in English churches by English citizens. The chapel, which had seemed before to be rising to some strange atmosphere of expectation, slipped back now to its native ugliness and sterility. The personality was in the man and in ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... the second time, Madame de Maintenon took the Duc du Maine to Barege, she returned by way of the Landes, Guienne, and Poitou. She wished to revisit her native place, and show her pupil to all her relations. Perceiving that she was a marquise, the instructress of princes, and a personage in high favour, they were lavish of their compliments and their praise, yet forebore to give ...
— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan


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