LekhoriLekhoriCharacteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (.
[…] when the Treaty of Tordesillas (in Portuguese, Tordesilhas) gave the disgruntled Portuguese the land mass now known as Brazil; and leads us all the way into the twenty—first century, with hosts of unsettled Native land claims […]
A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
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).
Mail trains are limited to first and second class passengers, but on the mixed trains third class is also provided, and this is patronised exclusively by natives.
Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif.
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An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (.
[…] cachet, Amazon Natives have succeeded in attracting an impressive degree of international support. The catastrophic attrition of Natives in Brazil raises the fundamental question of why the Portuguese took Africans there at all. […]