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Native

Adjective

Definitionen

1.AdjectiveBelonging to one by birth.
"This is my native land.; English is not my native language.; I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…"
2.AdjectiveCharacteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
"What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians."
3.AdjectiveAlternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
4.AdjectiveBorn or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
"a native inhabitant; native oysters or strawberries; Many native artists studied abroad."
5.AdjectiveWhich occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
"The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple."
6.AdjectivePertaining to the system or architecture in question.
"This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.; The native integer size is sixteen bits.; cloud native, crypto native"
7.AdjectiveOccurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
"native aluminium; native salt"
8.AdjectiveArising by birth; having an origin; born.
9.AdjectiveOriginal; constituting the original substance of anything.
"native dust"
10.AdjectiveNaturally related; cognate; connected (with).
11.NounA person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
12.NounA person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
13.NounA native speaker.
14.NounA native plant or animal.
15.NounAn oyster of species Ostrea edulis.
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