1. native - Noun
2. native - Adjective
3. native - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.
Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.
Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.
Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc.
Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.
Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. Jerome
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. Democritus
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast. Ambrose
The stones of my native country are warmer than the ovens of Babylon. Armenian Proverb
A man lives long in his native place. Irish Proverb
Forgetting your native tongue means forgetting your native country. Japanese Proverb