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native
English
Etymology
From Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin n?t?vus, from n?tus (“birth”). Doublet of naive.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ne?t?v/
- (US)
- (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?ne?t?v/
- IPA(key): /?ne?t?v/
- Rhymes: -e?t?v
- Hyphenation: na?tive
Adjective
native (comparative more native, superlative most native)
- Belonging to one by birth.
- Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
- Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
- Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
- (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
- (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
- (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
- Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
- Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
- Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
Synonyms
- (belonging to one by birth): inborn, innate; See also Thesaurus:innate
- (born or grown in the region in which it is found): aboriginal, autochthonous, indigenous; See also Thesaurus:native
Antonyms
- (born or grown in the region in which it is found): foreign, fremd; See also Thesaurus:foreign
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
native (plural natives)
- 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. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
- 2009, Alex M. Cameron, Power without Law: The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP (?ISBN):
- Dr John Reid, a historian called to testify for Mr Marshall, distinguished between the fur trade at the truckhouses and a smaller scale trade between natives and settlers: "It seems that there were native persons who were selling small amounts […] "
- 2013, James Ciment, Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It, Hill and Wang (?ISBN), page 72:
- As for the wars between natives and settlers, far from having “ceased,” they would continue well into the twentieth century, and over much the same things that had always sparked them—trade, land, and settler arrogance.
- 2009, Alex M. Cameron, Power without Law: The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP (?ISBN):
- A native speaker.
- Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.
Usage notes
- In North America, native/Native came into use as an umbrella term for the indigenous inhabitants of America as Indian began to fall out of formal usage (because it originated from Columbus's mistaken belief that he was in India and the people he encountered were Indians). Other designations include Native American, Native Canadian, and American Indian. In Canada, the terms include Inuit and Metis and the adjectives First Nation/First Nations.
Synonyms
- homeling (uncommon, obsolete)
Derived terms
- the natives are restless
Translations
See also
- native cat
- nativity
- nativization
References
- native at OneLook Dictionary Search
- native in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "native" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 215.
- native in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.tiv/
- Homophone: natives
Adjective
native
- feminine singular of natif
Anagrams
- enviât, vanité, veinât, venait
Italian
Adjective
native
- feminine plural of nativo
Noun
native f pl
- plural of nativa
Anagrams
- aventi, avinte, evinta, venati
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /na??ti?.u?e/, [nä??t?i?u??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /na?ti.ve/, [n??t?i?v?]
Adjective
n?t?ve
- vocative masculine singular of n?t?vus
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [na?ti.ve]
Adjective
native
- feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of nativ
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primary
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pr?m?rius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from pr?mus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?a?m??i/
- (US) enPR: pr??m?r-?, IPA(key): /?p?a??m??i/ or enPR: pr??m?-r?, IPA(key): /?p?a?m??i/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?p??em??i/, /?p??em?i/
Adjective
primary (comparative more primary, superlative most primary)
- first or earliest in a group or series.
- 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed
- the church of Christ, in its primary institution
- , Book II, Chapter VIII
- These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.
- 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed
- main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- first
- primus inter pares
Noun
primary (plural primaries)
- A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- The first year of grade school.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- A primary school.
- 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
- Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
- 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- A primary colour.
- 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
- By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.
- 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- (medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
Translations
References
- primary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
primary (third-person singular simple present primaries, present participle primarying, simple past and past participle primaried)
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
Further reading
- primary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- primary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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