Get first access to new product launches, sales, and exclusive content. Being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being. Native, indigenous, endemic, aboriginal mean belonging to a locality
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Native implies birth or origin in a place or region and may suggest compatibility with it.
Relating to or describing someone's country or place of birth or someone who was born in a…
These adjectives mean of, belonging to, or connected with a specific place or country by virtue of birth or origin Native implies birth or origin in the specified place The native north american sugar maple. A native of a particular country or region is someone who was born in that country or region.
Native american heritage month native american heritage month is a federal observance held each november to honor american indians and alaska natives. To have one's foot on (one's) native heath and variants To be on home ground, esp In one's place of birth
(in extended use) to be at home in a place or situation, to be on familiar territory.
Informal terms, idioms go native, to adopt or affect the manners or way of life of a place or environment that is different from one's own, esp After living on the island for a year, we went native and began to wear the local costume. A person who is native to a place A person who was born in a place
(in particular) a person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers.