Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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Definition
native1 Show phoneticsadjective
1 BORN IN [always before noun] Your native town or country is the place where you were born.
It was a custom in his native Algeria.
She is a native-born Texan.
2 LANGUAGE [always before noun] Your native language is the first language you learn.
a native speaker of English (= someone who learned English as their first language)
3 PEOPLE [always before noun] relating to the people who lived in a country first, before other people took control of it
the native inhabitants/population
4 ANIMALS AND PLANTS Native animals or plants live or grow naturally in a place, and have not been brought from somewhere else.
a large bird native to Europe
