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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary na·tive
ETYMOLOGY Middle English natif, from Middle French, from Latin nativus, from natus, past participle of nasci to be born — more at nation DATE 14th century 1. inborn , innate native talents 2. belonging to a particular place by birth native to Wisconsin 3. archaic : closely related 4. belonging to or associated with one by birth 5. natural , normal 6. a. grown, produced, or originating in a particular place or in the vicinity : local b. living or growing naturally in a particular region : indigenous 7. simple , unaffected 8. a. constituting the original substance or source b. found in nature especially in an unadulterated form mining native silver 9. chiefly Australian : having a usually superficial resemblance to a specified English plant or animal 10. capitalized : of, relating to, or being a member of an aboriginal people of North or South America : Native American • na·tive·ly adverb • na·tive·ness noun Synonyms. native , indigenous , endemic , aboriginal mean belonging to a locality. native implies birth or origin in a place or region and may suggest compatibility with it native tribal customs indigenous applies to species or races and adds to native the implication of not having been introduced from elsewhere maize is indigenous to America endemic implies being peculiar to a region edelweiss is endemic in the Alps aboriginal implies having no known race preceding in occupancy of the region the aboriginal peoples of Australia
noun DATE 1535 1. one born or reared in a particular place 2. a. an original or indigenous inhabitant b. something indigenous to a particular locality 3. a local resident; especially : a person who has always lived in a place as distinguished from a visitor or a temporary resident English Etymology native native (adj.) late 14c., from O.Fr . natif (fem. native), from L. nativus "innate, produced by birth," from natus, pp. of nasci (Old L. gnasci) "be born," related to gignere "beget," from PIE base *gen-/*gn-"produce" (see genus). The noun is mid-15c., originally meaning "person born in bondage," later (1530s) "person who has always lived in a place." Applied from 1650s to original inhabitants of non-European nations where Europeans hold political power; hence, used contemptuously of "the locals" from 1800.http://O.Fr Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 native na·tive / 5neitiv / adjective1. [only before noun] connected with the place where you were born and lived for the first years of your life 出生地的；儿时居住地的: your native land / country / city 你的故乡/祖国/故里 It is a long time since he has visited his native Chile. 他很久没有回故乡智利了。 Her native language is Korean. 她的母语是朝鲜语。 ⇨ see also native speaker 2. [only before noun] connected with the place where you have always lived or have lived for a long time 本地的；当地的: native Berliners 土生土长的柏林人 3. [only before noun] (sometimes offensive) connected with the people who originally lived in a country before other people, especially white people, came there 土着的；土着人的: native peoples 土着民族 native art 土着艺术 4. ~ (to...) (of animals and plants 动植物) existing naturally in a place 原产于某地的；土产的；当地的 SYN indigenous :
the native plants of America 美国的土生植物 The tiger is native to India. 这种虎产于印度。 native species 当地的物种 5. [only before noun] that you have naturally without having to learn it 天赋的；与生俱来的 SYN innate :
native cunning 与生俱来的狡猾 IDIOMS ▪ go 'native (often humorous) (of a person staying in another country 移居异国的人) to try to live and behave like the local people 入乡随俗；同化noun1. a person who was born in a particular country or area 出生于某国(或某地)的人: a native of New York 纽约人 2. a person who lives in a particular place, especially sb who has lived there a long time 本地人；当地人 SYN local :
You can always tell the difference between the tourists and the natives. 游客与当地人之间的区别一望即知。 She speaks Italian like a native. 她的意大利语说得和意大利人一样。 3. (old-fashioned, offensive) a word used in the past by Europeans to describe a person who lived in a place originally, before white people arrived there (旧时欧洲人用以称呼先于白人居住在某地的人)土着: disputes between early settlers and natives 早期移民和土着之间的纷争 4. an animal or a plant that lives or grows naturally in a particular area 本地的动物(或植物): The kangaroo is a native of Australia. 袋鼠是产于澳大利亚的动物。 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Edition n. Function: adjective 1 Synonyms: INNATE 1, congenital, connate, connatural, inborn, indigenous, inherited, natural, unacquired 2 belonging to a locality by birth or origin FF1C;a nativetraditionFF1E; FF1C;delighted with the tasty native fruitsFF1E; Synonyms: aboriginal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous Related Words: domestic, local Contrasted Words: adopted, introduced, naturalized Antonyms: alien, foreign, nonnative 3 Synonyms: DOMESTIC 2, home, ||inland, internal, intestine, municipal, national 4 Synonyms: WILD 1, agrarian, agrestal, natural, uncultivated, undomesticated 5 Synonyms: UNREFINED 3, crude, impure, raw, run-of-mine, ungraded, unsortedWebster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged na·tive I. \ˈnād.]iv, -āt], ]ēv also ]əv\ adjective Etymology: Middle English natif, from Middle French, from Latin nativus, from natus (past participle of nasci to be born) + -ivus -ive — more at nation 1. : belonging to one by nature : conferred by birth : derived from origin : born with one : not acquired : inherent , inborn < a native shrewdness and an ability to make the right decision by instinct — A.J.P.Taylor > < ambition and native aptitude — Bertrand Russell > < a certain native capacity is needed to meet academic requirements — W.K.Hicks > 2. : belonging to or associated with a particular place (as a region or country) by birth < native artists left the state and studied … abroad — American Guide Series: Michigan > < a native Englishman > 3. archaic : closely related (as by birth or race) < the head is not more native to the heart … than is the throne of Denmark to thy father — Shakespeare > 4. a. : of, relating to, or connected with one as a result of birth in a given place or circumstances < hailed in his native Sweden as an influential dramatist — William Peden > < returned to his native countryside — I.M.Price > < my foot is on my native heath — Sir Walter Scott > b. : belonging to or associated with one by birth into a particular region or people < native language > < native costume > 5. a. : according to nature : natural , normal < think France and England … the native leaders of Europe — Janet Flanner > < if fiction chooses to abandon its native approach — Bernard DeVoto > — often used with following to < sitting there, as native to the stool as a cat — Jean Stafford > b. : naturally implied or involved (as in a text or term) : not forced in interpretation or construction < the native sense of a word > 6. a. : grown, produced, or originating in a particular place (as a region or country) : not foreign or exotic < whose paintings retained a native quality despite his close familiarity with the styles of European art — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < the Edinburgh groat … was the first native coin of Scotland — advt > < the first native use of the harp in Ireland — Richard Hayward > b. : grown, produced, or originating in the vicinity : not transported from a distant region : local < your requirements are either native or nearby — Delaware > < a one-story structure of native stone — Seth King > c. : living or growing naturally in a given region : indigenous < tobacco is native to the American continent — C.H.Thienes > < where tropical … plants will grow native — Marjory S. Douglas > < a native species > d. : of, relating to, or being livestock found typically in a particular region; often : inferior and not of a recognized breed 7. : left or remaining in a natural state : being without embellishment or artificial change : simple , unadorned , unaffected < our feelings still native and entire, unsophisticated by pedantry — Edmund Burke > 8. archaic : belonging to or associated with one by birth < that man should thus … abridge him of his just and native rights — William Cowper > 9. obsolete : having a right or title by birth : rightful 10. : constituting the original substance or source of something < the way I must return to native dust — John Milton > 11. a. : occurring in nature especially uncombined with other elements < native gold > < native sulfur > b. : as found in nature : not artificially prepared < native gypsum > < salt in the native state > < conversion of a native protein to a denatured protein > 12. [native (II) ] a. : of, relating to, or composed of a people inhabiting a territorial area at the time of its discovery or its becoming familiar to a foreigner < native societies > < a native worker > b. : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of such a people having a less complex civilization < the native Indian tribes of the American prairie > < native reserve > c. usually capitalized, Africa : of, relating to, or being a Negro of unmixed descent < the vast Native labor resources of the country — A.J.Bruwer > < the third Native woman to qualify as a doctor — Johannesburg Sunday Express > 13. chiefly Australia : having a usually superficial resemblance to a specified English plant or animal < native cat > < native robin > < native cherry > 14. : free from branding marks : unbranded — used of cattle and hidesSynonyms: indigenous , endemic , aboriginal , autochthonous : native applies to one having birth or origin in a locality indicated; it may imply concord or compatibility with that locality < except for highly technical work, the company employs only native whites — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < 2,479 European and 37,032 native teachers — Americana Annual > < interest centers on our native roots, the American past that here is many strata deep — Bernard DeVoto > indigenous may apply to that which is not only native but which, insofar as can be known, has never been introduced, transported, or brought from another area into the locality in question < southern Rhodesia at present employs about half a million Africans, of whom half are indigenous and half are migrants from neighboring territories — Peter Scott > < the sugarcane, a plant indigenous to the island — Herman Melville > < no rich heritage of indigenous folk song — C.A. & Mary Beard > endemic may but does not necessarily add to indigenous the nation of being peculiar to a specific locality or sphere < the Russia of the czars was backward, poor, threatened by an endemic revolutionary crisis, tyrannical and inefficient in practically all aspects of its life — D.W.Brogan > < keen competition among universities in educational affairs and the pursuit of knowledge is necessary as a corrective to that complacency which is an endemic disease of academic groups — J.B.Conant > < malaria is endemic in 17 states of our own South and Southwest — Harper's > aboriginal is likely to apply to the primitive native belonging to the earliest extant race inhabiting an area < a primitive aboriginal race in the southeast of Sumatra — J.G.Frazer > < the squatters who staked off so-called government lands pushed the aboriginal inhabitants back into the mountains and deserts — American Guide Series: California > autochthonous (along with its variants) applies to that which either definitely or presumably had its eventual origin or emergence at the locality in question < autochthonous cases of malaria have never been reported from these islands — Biological Abstracts > < born in the West of Britain, a Welshman, into that tribe of autochthonous types who were living in the Island before the Danes, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, and other aggressors arrived — Henry Williamson > II. noun (-s) Etymology: in sense 1, from Middle English natif, from Medieval Latin nativus, from Latin nativus, adjective, belonging by birth, native; in other senses from native (I) 1. : one born in a state of bondage or serfdom : a born thrall < these lairds had also their natives and husbandmen for labor in feudal services — James Colville > 2. archaic a. : one born under a particular sign or planet b. : the subject of a nativity or other horoscope 3. a. : one born in a particular place : one connected with a place (as by parental domicile or childhood residence) even though actually born or later resident elsewhere < the total numbers of natives and foreign-born persons — Population Census Methods > — often used with following of < a native of Hoboken, where he was born on March 26 — Current Biography > b. Australia : a white person born in the country as distinguished from one born abroad 4. obsolete : a fellow countryman : compatriot — used in plural < the king (distrusting his natives) employed … many French foreigners — Thomas Fuller > 5. a. : one of a people inhabiting a territorial area at the time of its discovery or becoming familiar to a foreigner; especially : one belonging to a people having a less complex civilization < a protest against the attitude of the white population toward the natives — Irish Digest > b. : one held to resemble such a person : an inhabitant of a region spoken of as if strange or newly discovered c. usually capitalized, Africa : a Negro of unmixed descent; specifically : bantu < Natives and Coloreds who live along this public road — Farmer's Weekly South Africa > — compare african II 1, afrikaner , asiatic II 2, cape colored, european II 2b6. dialect Britain : one's native country or locality < when he came back to his native … he knew no one — Cornhill Magazine > 7. a. : a local resident; especially : a person who has lived all his life in a place as distinguished from a visitor or a temporary resident < give visitors — and the mere … native — a new aspect of a city — Irish Digest > < natives and old-time summer residents — New York Times > < the split between natives and refugees — Dolf Sternberger > b. : such a person inhabiting a small town or village 8. a. : something (as an animal, vegetable, or mineral) indigenous to a particular locality : one produced in a given area and not normally produced or found elsewhere < improbable that corn could have been a native of the region — P.C.Mangelsdorf > < the Mexican bean bettle, a native of Central America — American Guide Series: New Jersey > b. Britain : an oyster grown in local waters < eating natives until the man who opened them grew pale — Charles Dickens > 9. : a very old and large snapper — called also rock native |
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