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  1. a person who was born in a particular place, or a plant or animal that lives or grows naturally in a place and has not been brought from somewhere else: a native of Monaco. The red squirrel is a native of Britain. offensive old-fashioned.

  2. Native definition: being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being. See examples of NATIVE used in a sentence.

  3. The meaning of NATIVE is inborn, innate. How to use native in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Native.

  4. You're native to the country where you were born, and places have native plants and animals too. Things that are native are indigenous — they were born there. This is where the term Native Americans comes from — they were on this land before Europeans came over.

  5. adj. 1. a. Being such by birth or origin: a native Scot. b. Being a member of the original inhabitants of a particular place. c. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of such inhabitants: native dress; the native diet of Polynesia. d. Being one's own because of the place or circumstances of one's birth: our native land. 2.

  6. 14 meanings: 1. relating or belonging to a person or thing by virtue of conditions existing at the time of birth 2. inherent,.... Click for more definitions.

  7. (computing) 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. Word Origin. Idioms.

  8. NATIVE meaning: 1. Your native town or country is the place where you were born: 2. Your native language is the…. Learn more.

  9. Native Definition. Inborn or innate rather than acquired. Being such by birth or origin. A native Scot. Being a member of the original inhabitants of a particular place. Related to one as, or in connection with, the place of one's birth or origin. One's native land, one's native language.

  10. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Nationality & race, Plants, Animals, Anthropology na‧tive1 /ˈneɪtɪv/ S3 W3 adjective 1 country [ only before noun] your native country, town etc is the place where you were born → home They never saw their native land again.