Native
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English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| possession | move | foreign | #956: native | members | fortune | glass |
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Etymology
From Latin natus, birth.
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Adjective
native
- belonging to one by birth; "my native land"; "one's native language"
- characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the native peoples of Australia"
- characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"
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- (computing{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}) (of software) written specifically to run on a particular processor; "this is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds"
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Translations
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Noun
native (plural: natives)
- A person who is native to a place (literal or metaphoric)
- She is a regular Wiki* native.
- I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke...
- Sometimes used pejoratively against indigenous peoples by their colonizers
- Some natives must have stolen our cattle.
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