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native   (TTS Sound)

The noun native has 3 senses

• native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal -- (an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students")


• native -- (a person born in a particular place or country; "he is a native of Brazil")


• native -- (indigenous plants and animals)

The adj native has 4 senses

• native -- (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad")


• native -- (belonging to one by birth; "my native land"; "one's native language")


• native, aboriginal -- (characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia")


• native -- (as found in nature in the elemental form; "native copper")