native speaker

1. 1.

   a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood

   “native speakers of French”

   Broaderspeaker

Questions about native speaker

What does native speaker mean?

native speaker means "a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood".

Is native speaker a common word?

native speaker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.