Native ˈneɪtɪv Lived Language Long Time Connected Place

• your native land/country/city
• her native language is korean.
• it is a long time since he has visited his native chile.
• native berliners

native

1. connected with the place where you were born and lived for the first years of your life
• SEE ALSO native speaker
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/native-speaker
• your native land/country/city
• Her native language is Korean.
• It is a long time since he has visited his native Chile.

Extra Examples

• His work is barely known in his native country of Sweden.
• I returned to my native city last year to find it little changed since my childhood.
2. connected with the place where you have always lived or have lived for a long time
• native Berliners
3. connected with the people who originally lived in a country before other people, especially white people, came there
• The native peoples depend on the forest for their livelihoods.
• The island's native population began disappearing due to exposure to diseases.
• native art
• The festival is a celebration of native art and culture.
• a record of Native American life
4. existing naturally in a place
• SYNONYM indigenous
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/indigenous
• the native plants of America
• native species
• The tiger is native to India.
• Some animals are in danger because their native habitat is being destroyed.

Extra Examples

• Starlings do serious damage to native bird populations.
• Introduced species are often a threat to native plants.
• There are about 17 hedgehog species native to Europe, Asia and Africa.
5. that you have naturally without having to learn it
• SYNONYM innate
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/innate
• native cunning
• He had to rely on his native wit.
6. found in a pure state
• native gold/silver/copper
• Native copper was probably the first metal to be made into tools and weapons.
7. designed for or built into a particular system, especially using the language or computer code associated with a particular computer or processor
• Native apps still generally perform better than web apps, but the gap is shrinking.
• Early programmers worked in native computer code or machine language.
8. to try to live and behave like the local people
• You will be able to meet local people, eat local food and ‘go native’.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin nativus, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci.