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Native   /nˈeɪtɪv/   Listen
Native

adjective
1.
Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin.  "Many native artists studied abroad"  Antonym: foreign.
2.
Belonging to one by birth.  "One's native language"  Antonym: adopted.
3.
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning.  Synonym: aboriginal.  "The aboriginal peoples of Australia"  Antonym: nonnative.
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



... show us how you bear prosperity. Many flowers I have known transplanted to conservatories, thinking they would prove to be exotics, but I have heard that they generally withered in the heated atmosphere to which they were removed, and did not come to perfection when taken from their native soil.' ...
— Parables from Flowers • Gertrude P. Dyer
... and fifty men were cast ashore alive. Along the coast of Connemara, Mayo, and Sligo many other ships were wrecked. In almost every case the crews who reached the shore were at once murdered by the native savages for the sake of their ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty
... the boundless waste of water. His pulse beat fast as he recalled the friends and comrades with whom he had spent the last few years in that vanished city. All the images of his past life floated upon his memory; his thoughts sped away to his native France, only to return again to wonder whether the depths of ocean would reveal any traces of ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne
... height of their happiness. How many are there, thinkest thou, which would think themselves almost in Heaven if they had but the least part of the remains of thy fortune? This very place, which thou callest banishment, is to the inhabitants thereof their native land. So true it is that nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. Who is so happy that if he yieldeth to discontent, desireth not to change his estate? How much bitterness ...
— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
... was still boundless. He gathered an increased following, conquered tribe after tribe in Abyssinia proper, and prosecuted a most successful crusade in the country of the Gallas, subduing descendants of those who had wrought havoc in his native land from time to time, and established himself at a place nearly a mile square, and 9000 feet above the level of the sea. The town is known to ...
— Our Sailors - Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign • W.H.G. Kingston


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