Usually means: Fluent from birth in language.
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  1. native speaker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. native speaker: Merriam-Webster
  3. native speaker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. native speaker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. native speaker: Vocabulary.com
  6. native speaker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. native-speaker, native speaker: Wiktionary
  8. native speaker: Dictionary.com
  9. Native Speaker (album), Native Speaker (disambiguation), Native Speaker (novel), Native Speaker, Native speaker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. native speaker: Rhymezone
  11. native speaker: FreeDictionary.org
  12. native speaker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. native speaker: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Native speaker: Glossary of Translation and Interpreting Terminology

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Definitions from Wiktionary (native speaker)

▸ noun:  (linguistics) A person who grew up with a particular language as their mother tongue.

Similar:
non-native speaker, native, allophone, Francophone, alloglot, Latinophone, heritage, native soil, originary, Indo-Aryan, more...

Opposite:
non-native speaker, ESL speaker

Types:
mother tongue, first language, more...

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Similar:
non-native speaker, native, allophone, Francophone, alloglot, Latinophone, heritage, native soil, originary, Indo-Aryan, more...

Opposite:
non-native speaker, ESL speaker

Types:
mother tongue, first language, more...



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