natives
- 1Plural of native.
Lifelong natives of the city still remember when the old ballpark stood downtown.
Gardeners increasingly favor natives over imported species that demand extra care.
Note
A regular plural, but one where the capital letter can matter. Capitalized, Natives names aboriginal peoples of the Americas or Australia, and in US and Canadian use the word can mean Native Americans specifically. Lowercase, it also covers people born in a place, native speakers, and even Ostrea edulis oysters. In colonial-era texts, "the natives" set inhabitants against settlers, often with a derogatory edge now widely heard as offensive.
natives is a form of native
native, noun: A person born in a particular place. Full entry
- Forms
- nativenatives plural
- Spelling
- native → natives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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