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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



... his face, as she scrutinized it, a stormy glow of the man's native, coarse, imperious virility, reasserting itself through the mask of torpor which this vacuous year had superimposed. The large features were somehow grown larger still; they dominated the countenance as rough bold headlands dominate a shore. It was the visage of a conqueror—of a man gathering ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
... were half asleep. Coach and horses and driver were so dead and alive, so Rip Van Winkle-like, that the temptation was almost irresistible to stir them up, to wake them out of their dream. To Teddy, with his native love of mischief, ...
— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport
... that could not be placated and he took no pains to hide the fact. He had happened to be in the vicinity prospecting when Macdonald had rushed his entries. Partly out of mere perversity and partly by reason of native shrewdness, old Holt had slipped in and located one of the best claims in the heart of the group. Nor had he been moved to a reasonable compromise by any amount of persuasion, threats, or tentative offers to buy a relinquishment. He was obstinate. He knew a good ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... the approaching foxes, and, going to the end of the line, lay down out of sight to watch what would happen. When the foxes drew near, one of them seized the bait, and the Eskimo, jerking the line, caught the fox by the tongue. In that way the native caught six foxes before he returned to the post; but then, as everyone in the Far North knows, white foxes are ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
... friendship. I cannot claim the most remote affinity with your career in arms. There is nothing connected with this sad fragment of history, either in fact or hope, to suggest any association with your name or achievements. But as my main object is to show that Ireland's failure was not owing to native recreancy or cowardice, I feel satisfied that of all living men, your position and character will best sustain the sole aim of my present ...
— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny


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