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native

noun

a native of Sweden |

New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives:

inhabitant, resident, local;

citizen, national, dweller;

aborigine;

rare autochthon, indigene.

▷antonyms foreigner, outsider, alien.

adjective

1 the island's native population:

indigenous, original, earliest, first, aboriginal, initial;

ancient, primeval, primordial;

rare autochthonous, autochthonic.

▷antonyms immigrant; non-native.

2 honey, eggs and other native produce | native plants:

domestic, home-grown, home-made, home, local;

indigenous, endemic.

▷antonyms imported.

3 his vagueness masked a shrewd native instinct for politics:

innate, inherent, inborn, intrinsic, instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, natural, natural-born, deep-seated, deep-rooted;

hereditary, inherited, in the blood, in the family, natal, congenital, bred in the bone, inbred, ingrained, built-in;

rare connate, connatural.

▷antonyms acquired, learned.

4 her native tongue:

mother, vernacular.

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