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native

/ˈneɪtɪv/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈneɪtɪv/
native
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

na - tive -> native

Myanmar meaning

(n) ဇာတိ။ ချက်မြှုပ်။ ဒေသခံ။ တိုင်းရင်းသား။ (အပင်၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်) မူရင်းဒေသ။ ဇာတိ။ အမိဘာသာစကား။ ဒေသသား။ ပင်ကို။ ပကတိ။ ဇာတိဖြစ် သော။ ဒေသမှထွက်သော။ (adj) ဇာတိ

Full entry

native / 'neÇtÇv / n

၁။ (က) ဇာတိ။ ချက်မြှုပ်။ a native of Miami/Italy/ the north-east/ these parts.
(ခ) ဒေသခံ။ She speaks the language like a native.
၂။ (dated usu offensive ) တိုင်းရင်းသား။ The early colonists and settlers enslaved the natives.
၃။ (အပင်၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်) မူရင်းဒေသ။ The kangaroo is a native of Australia.
adj
၁။ ဇာတိ။ native speakers of English (ie those whose first language is English) ❍ leave one's native land/ city ❍ native language/ tongue. အမိဘာသာစကား။
၂။ (sometimes derog or offensive ) ဒေသသား။ native customs/ rituals.
၃။ ပင်ကို။ ပကတိ။ have a great deal of native charm/ intelligence/ wit.
၄။ ~ to … ဇာတိဖြစ် သော။ ဒေသမှထွက်သော။ plants native to America (eg tobacco, potatoes) ❍ The tiger is native to India.
❏ go native [IDM ] (often joc ) ဒေသခံတို့၏ လူနေမှုပုံစံ အတိုင်း ပြောင်းလဲကျင့်သုံးသည်။ He's emigrated to the USA and gone completely native.
 Native American (also dated Amerindian ) n မူလ အမေရိကန်တိုင်းရင်းသား။ See also RED INDIAN

More examples
  • My wife’s a native New Yorker, but I’m from Atlanta.
  • Monique returns to her native France every summer.
  • [native land] : After a long stay in England he’s back in his native land.
  • Pupils are encouraged to develop their native skills.
  • The territory was divided between the Burgundians and the native population.
  • [native to] : Elephants are native to Africa and Asia.
  • [native species] : The larger frogs are a native species.
  • Native habitat
  • Games should be native apps, and pretty much everything else is best done with HTML5/JS.
Synonyms
inhabitant, resident, local, national, citizen, subject, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, autochthon, autochthonous, belonging, built-in, congenital, connate, connatural, constitutional, domestic, dweller, endemic, essential, from, fundamental, genuine, hereditary, home, home towner, homegrown, homemade, implanted, inborn, inbred, indigene, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, inherited, inland, innate, instinctive, internal, intrinsic, intuitive, inveterate, inwrought, municipal, natal, natural, original, primary, primeval, primitive, real, regional, related, unacquired, vernacular, wild
Antonyms
acquired, alien, auxiliary, foreign, foreigner, immigrant, minor, outside, secondary, stranger, unimportant
Cross references
inhabitantresidentlocalnationalcitizensubjectaboriginalaborigineancientautochthonautochthonousbelongingbuilt-incongenitalconnateconnaturalconstitutionaldomesticdwellerendemicessentialfromfundamentalgenuinehereditaryhomehome townerhomegrown
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