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Synonyms for native
ˈneɪ tɪvna·tive
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Wiktionary
nativenoun
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foreignnativenoun
Belonging to one by birth.
She is a regular Wiki* native.
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foreignnativeadjective
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
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foreignnativeadjective
Sometimes used pejoratively against indigenous peoples by their colonizers.
Some natives must have stolen our cattle.
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foreignnativeadjective
Many native artists studied abroad.
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foreignnativeadjective
The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
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foreignnativeadjective
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foreignnativeadjective
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foreign
English Synonyms and Antonyms
native
Native denotes that which belongs to one by birth; natal that which pertains to the event of birth; natural denotes that which rests upon inherent qualities of character or being. We speak of one's native country, or of his natal day; of natural ability, native genius. Compare INHERENT; PRIMEVAL; RADICAL.
Synonyms:
indigenous, innate, natal, natural, originalAntonyms:
acquired, alien, alien, artificial, assumed, foreign, unnatural
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
native
Synonyms:
indigenous, home, exported, artless, natural, proper, suitable, congenital, inbred, vernacularAntonyms:
foreign, imported, exotic, alien, artificial, acquired, assumed, affected
Princeton's WordNet
native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginalnoun
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
"the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"
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indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal, native AustralianAntonyms:
adventive, strange, foreign, impure, nonnative, naturalized, adoptive, alien, exotic, tramontane, established, foreign-born, unnaturalised, adopted, unnaturalized, importednativenoun
a person born in a particular place or country
"he is a native of Brazil"
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indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginalAntonyms:
exotic, unnaturalised, nonnative, naturalized, adopted, foreign, impure, foreign-born, adventive, unnaturalized, strange, adoptive, imported, established, tramontane, aliennativeadjective
indigenous plants and animals
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indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginalAntonyms:
nonnative, imported, unnaturalised, adventive, established, alien, unnaturalized, adoptive, naturalized, exotic, tramontane, adopted, foreign, strange, foreign-born, impurenativeadjective
characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
"the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"
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aboriginalAntonyms:
nonnative, naturalized, tramontane, foreign, alien, unnaturalised, impure, adopted, adventive, adoptive, unnaturalized, strange, established, imported, foreign-born, exoticnativeadjective
belonging to one by birth
"my native land"; "one's native language"
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aboriginalAntonyms:
nonnative, imported, foreign, adopted, impure, unnaturalised, naturalized, adventive, unnaturalized, established, strange, foreign-born, adoptive, alien, exotic, tramontanenative, aboriginaladjective
characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
"native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia"
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primaeval, primordial, aboriginal, primal, primevalAntonyms:
foreign-born, nonnative, imported, foreign, exotic, unnaturalised, adopted, naturalized, tramontane, impure, alien, adoptive, strange, unnaturalized, adventive, establishednativeadjective
as found in nature in the elemental form
"native copper"
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aboriginalAntonyms:
nonnative, alien, unnaturalised, impure, established, unnaturalized, tramontane, imported, strange, adoptive, naturalized, adopted, adventive, foreign-born, exotic, foreign
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Editors Contribution
indio
a native is a person who is an indegonous person.
Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019sons of the soil
he is a native.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
nativeadjective
nativeadjective
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vernacular, VULGAR, mothernativeadjective
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indigenous, natural, congenital, original, genuine, intrinsic, real, unartificial, home-bred, not acquired, bred in the bone, that runs in the bloodnativenoun
Synonyms:
original inhabitant
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
nativeadjective
Synonyms:
natal, indigenous, natural, aboriginal, autochthonal, vernacular, mother, genuine, congenital, inherent, inborn, inbred, innate, originalAntonyms:
foreign, artificial, exotic, acquired, assumed, unnaturalnativenoun
Synonyms:
aboriginal, denizen (by birth), indigene
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "native":
aboriginal, indigenous, maternal, natal, natives, aboriginals, native-born, autochthonous, original, amerindian, christmas, autochtone
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#691 | original | |
#759 | natural | |
#1170 | christmas | |
#2290 | native | |
#2818 | proper | |
#3580 | suitable | |
#6895 | indigenous | |
#7983 | aboriginal | |
#12452 | maternal | |
#13799 | natal | |
#14445 | exported | |
#17850 | natives | |
#17954 | congenital | |
#20616 | primal | |
#25535 | innate | |
#26448 | inbred | |
#32788 | vernacular | |
#38702 | primordial | |
#63365 | primeval | |
#73371 | aboriginals | |
#93978 | amerindian | |
#103117 | aborigine | |
#106009 | artless | |
#158053 | autochthonous |
How to use native in a sentence?
I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.
If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.
Greeting indigenous Code Talkers in front of that portrait, knowing Andrew Jackson is responsible for the Trail of Tears, is disrespectful -- it's worse than that. It's appallingly out of touch, this isn't the first time he's attempted to slur Elizabeth Warren by calling her Pocahontas, who was a real person, and he diminished an entire demographic of native women to a single figure in history who's been largely fetishized and whose traumatic story has been whitewashed by the American narrative.
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
Martin Luther King Jr.Why taught us that racial injustice in United States started with the arrival of colonizers on Native land. The violence these settlers used first against Indigenous peoples, then against Black slaves, was predicated on White supremacist beliefs. White supremacy is upheld by false origin myths about the United States, ignored by whitewashing brutal anti-Native and anti-Black policies, and sustained by stereotyped, inaccurate portrayals of Native people and people of color in popular culture, to create a just world, all people of every race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender expression, and age, must stand together and tell truthful stories about our past and hopeful stories about our future.
Translations for native
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- اصليArabic
- rodný, rodák, domorodecCzech
- hjemmehørendeDanish
- Eingeborene, einheimisch, gebürtig, Eingeborener, Ureinwohner, UreinwohnerinGerman
- αυτόχθων, γηγενής, ντόπιος, μητρικός, ιθαγενής, γενέθλιοςGreek
- indiĝeno, indiĝena, denaskaEsperanto
- indígena, natal, nativoSpanish
- paikallinen, alueellinen, [[paikallinen]] [[asukas]], alkuasukas, autoktoninen, alkuperäinen, kotoperäinen, syntyperäinenFinnish
- indigène, autochtone, natif, maternel, originaire deFrench
- gnèitheachScottish Gaelic
- देHindi
- születésű, hazai, belföldi, anyanyelviHungarian
- մայրենի, հայրենիArmenian
- asliIndonesian
- nativoItalian
- 自国, 土着Japanese
- 토산의Korean
- indigenusLatin
- tangata whenuaMāori
- ingeboren, inheems, inwoner, oorspronkelijk, inboorling, moeder-, autochtoon, geboren en getogen, geboorte-, aangeborenDutch
- innfødtNorwegian
- tubylec, ojczysty, autochton, rdzenny, rodzimyPolish
- selvagem, nativo, indígenaPortuguese
- localnic, nativ, originară, de la naștere, originar, autohton, indigen, matern, localnicăRomanian
- туземный, выходец, родной, местный, туземец, туземка, коренной, аборигенка, коренная жительница, уроженка, коренной житель, абориген, уроженецRussian
- starosedeoc, samorodan, рођениSerbo-Croatian
- amëtar, autokton, vendësAlbanian
- inhemskSwedish
- జన్మస్థలంTelugu
- ріднийUkrainian
- געבוירןYiddish
- 本地人Chinese
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