英语词汇“native”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

relating to the place of one's birth

one's native land

belonging to a particular place by birth

a native Yorkshireman

said of a plant, etc: living or growing naturally in a region

originating in or characteristic of a particular locality

inborn; innate

native wit

simple; unaffected

native charm

said of a metal: found in nature, esp in a pure form

go native

derog said of a person living abroad: to adopt the local way of life

natively adv

nativeness noun

[Middle English natif via French from Latin nativus, from nasci to be born]

a person born or reared in a particular place

a native of Devon

dated, offensive an original or indigenous inhabitant, esp of a country colonized by Europeans

a plant, animal, etc living or growing in a particular locality

chiefly humorous a local resident; esp a person who lives in a place permanently, as distinguished from a visitor or a temporary resident

day-trippers who disturb the peace of the natives

There are few problems with native used as an adjective: native land, native language, and native Yorkshireman are all unexceptionable. It is with the noun that the trouble starts. The noun native, however, is extremely offensive if used to mean simply ‘a non-white person’ or, and scarcely less so now if used to mean ‘an original (and by implication usually uncivilized) inhabitant of a country’. The only currently safe use of the noun native is in the meaning ‘a person who was born in a particular place’: I am a native of Hertfordshire. See also note at Native American

native¹/ʹnaytiv/ adj

native²noun

native1/ʹnaytiv/ adj

native2noun

native¹/ʹnaytiv/ adj

native²noun