native

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsindigenindigeneaborigineaboriginal

   Broaderperson

   NarrowerLevantineMauritianFilipinoRussianSeychellois
2. 2.

   a person born in a particular place or country

   “he is a native of Brazil”

   Broaderperson
3. 3.

   indigenous plants and animals

   Broaderorganism

Other forms of native

plural

natives·

comparative

nativer·

superlative

nativest·

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 native

What does native mean?

native means "characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in native?

native has 2 syllables: na-tive. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˈneɪtɪv/.

What is another word for native?

Close synonyms include aboriginal, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal. 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.

What is the opposite of native?

The recorded antonyms are foreign, adopted, nonnative.

Is native a common word?

native is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 native?

1 word rhymes with native. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.