- a person who was born in a particular country or area
- a native of New York
- The 18 year-old Rome native excels in ballet, hip-hop and tap.
Extra Examples- She was a native of Edinburgh, born and bred.
- A native of Austria, he emigrated to London in 1956.
- She was not a native of the island, but had lived there for many years.
- a person who lives in a particular place, especially somebody who has lived there a long time synonym local
- You can always tell the difference between the tourists and the natives.
- She speaks Italian like a native.
- Athens in the summer is too hot even for the natives.
- (offensive, old-fashioned) a word used in the past by Europeans to describe a person who lived in a place originally, before white people arrived there
- disputes between early settlers and natives
- an animal or a plant that lives or grows naturally in a particular area
- The kangaroo is a native of Australia.
- The plants are natives of southern European limestone mountains.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin nativus, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci.
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