native:
(plural: ‘natives‘; the opposite word in meaning = non-native, settler, foreigner, visitor)
a native of America (now the USA)
a person born in a place and/or lived in that place for whole or part his/her life in that place;
a person born in a place/country but lives in another place or country with the identity of the place of birth still intact,
two natives (L) selling commodities to the settlers/foreigners (R)
James O’Neill is a native of Ireland now living in the USA.
An Indian expatriate came to Australia to teach English to the natives (aborigines).
The natives of North America, those people who had been living on the content of North America before the arrival of Europeans, were invited to join the settlers, but those who refused to join were kept in reserves, small patches of land with borders, in order to avoid bloody fights between them and the settlers by the then colonial government.
an Australian aborigine’s features (Late Actor David Ngoombujarra)
Note 2: ‘Native’ is also used to refer to a plant or animal that has been growing or living in a particular place or region for a long time — born, live and die in that place or region. For an article about a native plant, please click here.
