Native
Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.
Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.
Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.
Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc.
Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.
Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.
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Native Quotations
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.
Newt Gingrich
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell Lowell
I can speak Esperanto like a native.
Spike Milligan
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber
Native Translations
native in Afrikaans is inheems
native in Dutch is ingeboren, aangeboren
native in French is natif
native in German is angeboren, einheimisch, einheimisch, Eingeborener
native in Italian is natio, unigenito
native in Latin is paterna, paternus
native in Portuguese is nativo
native in Spanish is nativo
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