native
/ˈneɪtɪv/ noun [C]Definition
BORN › someone who was born in a particular place: He's a native of Texas.
ORIGINAL PEOPLE › an old-fashioned and often offensive word for a person who lived in a country, for example an African country, before Europeans went there
(Definition of native noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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