Usually means: Originating naturally in a place.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word native:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. native: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. native, native: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. native: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. native: Collins English Dictionary
  5. native: Vocabulary.com
  6. Native, native: Wordnik
  7. native: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Native, native: Wiktionary
  9. native: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. native: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. native: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. native: Dictionary.com
  13. native (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. native: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Native (OneRepublic album), Native (album), Native (band), Native (comics), Native (computing), Native: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Native: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. native: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. native: Rhymezone
  19. native: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. native: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Native, native: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Native: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. native: Free Dictionary
  24. native: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. native: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. native: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. native: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Native (disambiguation), native: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Native (disambiguation), native: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Native (disambiguation), native: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. native: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. native: Glossary of Common Tree Terms
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Biological Control (No longer online)
  4. native: Evolution Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. native: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Native: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. native: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See natively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Belonging to one by birth.
adjective:  Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
adjective:  Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
adjective:  (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
adjective:  (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
adjective:  (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
adjective:  Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
adjective:  Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
adjective:  Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
noun:  A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
noun:  (in particular) A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
noun:  A native speaker.
noun:  Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.
adjective:  Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
adjective:  (US, Canada) Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.
adjective:  (Australia, New Zealand) Aboriginal; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines.
adjective:  (South Africa) Related to black Africans, especially Bantu.
noun:  An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
noun:  (US, Canada) A Native American.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) An Aborigine.
noun:  (South Africa, dated, possibly offensive) A black African, especially a Bantu.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia). [Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)]

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