natal

1. 1.

   relating to or accompanying birth

   “natal injuries”

   “natal day”

   “natal influences”
2. 2.

   of or relating to the buttocks

Other forms of natal

plural

natals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about natal

What does natal mean?

natal means "a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in natal?

natal has 2 syllables: na-tal. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˈneɪtəl/.

What is another word for natal?

Close synonyms include KwaZulu-Natal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is natal a common word?

natal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with natal?

3 words rhyme with natal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.