native

IPA: nˈeɪtɪv

A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
(in particular) A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
A native speaker.
Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.
An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
(US, Canada) A Native American.
(Australia, New Zealand) An Aborigine.
(South Africa, dated, possibly offensive) A black African, especially a Bantu.

Belonging to one by birth.
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
(biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
(computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
(mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
(US, Canada) Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.
(Australia, New Zealand) Aboriginal; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines.
(South Africa) Related to black Africans, especially Bantu.
Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia). [Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)]

Examples of "native" in Sentences

He is a native English speaker.
The Americans took the natives hostage.
The native bread is found in the earth.
He managed to empathize with the natives.
The Cocoa tree is native to the Americas.
The diphthong is a variant of in native words.
Finnish is the native language of the population.
Massachusetts has similar restrictions for the word "native."
If the farmed salmon is native, it can interbreed with the wild native salmon.
His parents, naturalized American citizens taking him on a triumphant tour of their native land, were killed.
They don't want to be a part of Taiwan so how do they have any right to any opinion on the term native Taiwanese?
Some people were urging the newspapers to drop the word native from their headlines, others found it hard to know what the hiding of the painful truth would do.