native

native
1 adjective (only before noun)
1 COUNTRY your native country, town etc is the place where you were born: a visit by the Pope to his native Poland | They never saw their native land again.
2 native New Yorker/Londoner/Californian etc a person who has always lived in New York, London etc
3 native language/tongue the language you spoke when you first learned to speak: Lara's native language is Swedish.
4 PLANT/ANIMAL growing, living, produced etc in one particular place; indigenous
(+ to): The oregano plant is native to Italy. | the region's native birds
5 ART/CUSTOM related to the people of a country who were the earliest people to live there: the native art of Peru
6 native intelligence/wit etc a quality that you have naturally from birth: native genius
7 go native humorous to behave, dress, or speak like the people who live in the country where you have come to stay or work: I once knew an anthropologist who went native and married a Masai warrior.
2 noun (C)
1 a person who was born in a particular place
(+ of): a native of Texas
2 someone who lives in a place all the time or has lived there a long time
(+ of): Are you a native of these parts?
3 (often plural) a word that is now considered offensive, in former times used by Europeans to mean one of the people who lived in Africa, S. Asia etc before Europeans arrived
4 a plant or animal that grows or lives naturally in a place
(+ of): The bear was once a native of Britain.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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