native meaning
EN
[ˈneɪtɪv] [-eɪtɪv] 
US WNative
- Native may refer to:
FR native 
- NounPLnativesSUF-ative
- A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
- (in particular) A person of aboriginal stock, 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).
- Some natives must have stolen our cattle.
- A native speaker.
- A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
- AdjectiveCOMmore nativeSUPmost native
- Belonging to one by birth.
- This is my native land.
- English is not my native language.
- I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
- Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
- What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
- The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.
- 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.
- a native inhabitant
- native oysters or strawberries
- Many native artists studied abroad.
- (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.
- The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
- (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
- This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
- The native integer size is sixteen bits.
- (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
- Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
- Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
- native dust
- Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
- Belonging to one by birth.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Language learners sometimes use periphrases like "did go" where a native speaker would use "went".
- Very little research has, however, directly examined the limitations of native perception, especially for contrasts that are only minimally differentiated acoustically and articulatorily.
- Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of native in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- fr native
- en natives
- fr natives
- en native-born
- en natively
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "native" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.