<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.</li><li>belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent: native grace.</li><li>native ability; native grace.</li><li>Synonyms: congenital, inbred, innate.</li><li>belonging by birth to a people regarded as indigenous to a certain place, especially a preliterate people: Native guides accompanied the expedition through the rainforest.</li><li>of indigenous origin, growth, or production: native pottery.</li><li>Synonyms: aboriginal, autochthonous.</li><li>of, relating to, or characteristic of the Indigenous inhabitants of a place or country: Native dress.</li><li>Native customs; Native dress.</li><li>born in a particular place or country: a native New Yorker.</li><li>of or relating to a language acquired by a person before or to the exclusion of any other language: Her native language is Greek.</li><li>pertaining to or characteristic of a person using a native language or first language, acquired in childhood: native command of a language.</li><li>a native speaker of English; native command of a language.</li><li>under the rule of natives: a native government.</li><li>occupied by natives: the native quarter of Algiers.</li><li>remaining or growing in a natural state; unadorned or unchanged: the native beauty of a desert island.</li><li>Synonyms: original, genuine, real.</li><li>forming the source or origin of a person or thing: He returned to his native Kansas.</li><li>originating naturally in a particular country or region, as animals or plants: Hundreds of species of plants and trees native to central Texas are displayed and nurtured in the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, south of Austin.</li><li>found in nature rather than produced artificially, as a mineral substance: the difference between native and industrial diamonds.</li><li>Chemistry, Mineralogy. (of metals) occurring in nature pure or uncombined: native copper.</li><li>belonging to a person as a birthright: to deprive people of their native rights.</li><li>Digital Technology. of or relating to software designed specifically for the platform on which it is running: native mobile apps.</li><li>native applications for 64-bit PCs; native mobile apps.</li><li>of or relating to data interpreted or displayed by the software or hardware for which it was originally encoded: to view the file in its native format.</li><li>Archaic. closely related, as by birth.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Sometimes Offensive. one of the people indigenous to a place or country, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.: the natives of Chile.</li><li>Synonyms: Aborigine.</li><li>Antonyms: alien.</li><li>Sometimes Offensive. Indigenous (def 2).</li><li>a person born in a particular place or country: a native of Ohio.</li><li>an organism indigenous to a particular region.</li><li>British. an oyster reared in British waters, especially in an artificial bed.</li><li>Astrology. a person born under a particular planet: Capricorn natives are practical, collected, and reliable allies to have in a crisis.</li></ul>