I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mother/native tongue (= the language you learn as a child )
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She felt more comfortable talking in her native tongue.
Native American
native speaker
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For the spoken language, students are taught by native speakers.
native (= having always been in a particular country )
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Desert broom is a species native to Arizona.
sb's home/native city (= where they were born or grew up )
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He said that he never wanted to leave his home city.
sb’s first/native language (= the language someone first learned as a child )
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His first language was Polish.
sth’s native habitat (= the particular place where an animal or plant lives or grows )
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Even in its native habitat, the plant is very rare.
your home/native country (= where you were born or live permanently )
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After five years in America, she returned to her home country, Japan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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city
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It shows a corner of my native city some years after the end of the last war.
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Your king has conquered my native city .
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So he wasn't chauffeured about in his native city .
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He successfully combined his career with worldwide travel and scientific study, often applying the resulting experience to benefit his native city .
country
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He despised his native country and said so in print.
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He moved back to his native country briefly, where he married, and then returned here, Crum said.
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Dedicated, you will find, to the main religion of my own native country .
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Lille is currently undergoing major renovation, creating an ideal opportunity for its works to be better known outside its native country .
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During the scandal, it was alleged that one of his jets was used to smuggle arms to his native country .
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Others behave as annuals in our climate but are true perennials in their native countries .
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Lots of our pet fish are regarded as food in their native countries .
culture
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In 1996 a royal commission concluded that the problem went beyond attempts to snuff out native culture .
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Mullican had been raised in Okiahoma, an area rich with many native cultures .
fish
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New beaches were formed as were backwaters to nurture native fish .
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The mesquite forests that once lined a river brimming with unique native fish have given way to banks of toxic dumps.
forest
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It calls on countries to improve management of plantations and set aside remaining native forests to allow them to regenerate naturally.
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It has already promised to ban logging in native forests .
inhabitant
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Taking advantage of its remoteness from the administrative centre of the Imperium they had enslaved the native inhabitants .
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Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants .
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Any benefit to the native inhabitants of the colony was incidental.
land
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Their native land consisted of a central plain surrounded by mountains.
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Years later, Bishop Gregory returned to his native land .
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Never see my native land again, mountains, moorlands and glens, apart from brief holiday excursions?
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The playwright, Athol Fugard, has long been acclaimed for his searing plays about injustice in his native land .
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The virus did not take long to escape from its native land .
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Then, as now, my native land was at a crossroads.
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Here 1 live, constantly thinking of my native land , alas, my heart is aching.
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According to Tom, Lee brought the salad from his native land .
language
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But dialect features are not errors in this sense at all, but are characteristics of a pupil's native language .
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Most children in all cultures begin to master their native language around age 2.
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And as they learn their native language , they also use language to learn other things.
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Interference from the native language is probably one of the most noticeable aspects of the early stages in second language learning.
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Indeed no native language is primitive.
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Only to be used by religious die-hards since the Vatican had decided that modem-day native language was flavour-of-the-month.
people
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Even the cities were secured by the settlers: native people were confined to rented property in peripheral townships.
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Alcohol and suicide, the twin curses of the native people .
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They also received geographical information from native people in map form.
peoples
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The shaman's journey to the land of the spirits is one manifestation of the animist religion of the Siberian native peoples .
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Similar arguments have been used by white men to justify slavery and genocide of native peoples .
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The benefits to the poor are trifling, and for native peoples , invariably negative.
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And the most distinctive languages are often the most vulnerable - those of native peoples .
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The Ecuadorean Government does not recognise native peoples as having land rights.
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Yet there is a strong emphasis among some historians on the voluntary submission of native peoples .
plant
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Botanical stations were established throughout the empire to study native plants and identify those o potential value.
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Mitchell said last week as she led her group of pupils and parent volunteers along the native plants trail.
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Given the state of Britain's flora it is not surprising that the centre will focus on the conservation of native plants .
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That brush is a shelter for small animals and birds as well as a critical repository of seeds from native plants .
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No doubt Eliza spent hours scouring the beds and walkways for native plants to incorporate in her bird drawings.
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In a $ 7.5 million effort to restore native plants and animals in the national park, the U.S.
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What's wrong with growing some of our own native plants ?
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They marched directly to the native plants garden and knew exactly what to begin looking for.
population
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Nevertheless, Sapaudia was divided up between the Burgundians and the native population .
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The native population was either driven back or dominated.
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By 1640, 100,000 planters had arrived in Ireland when the native population numbered only one million inhabitants.
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In other words, the very same trucks that have terrorized their native population for decades.
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Early colonists ravaged native populations with syphilis and typhoid.
soil
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The deeply symbolic ritual act of treading the earth affirms the relationship of human beings to their native soil .
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State historian and native soil Charles Morrissey has observed that a sadness has always pervaded Vermont.
son
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Duxbury, Mass. celebrated the exploits of its native son .
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The only folks who know where the mushrooms bloom in the woods are native sons .
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He was their most famous native son , and he was gone now.
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The prosecutor was a handsome, well-liked native son made good, and his killers demonstrated a grisly attention to detail.
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These are native sons and daughters representing a homeland.
speaker
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This involves accessing, directly or indirectly, the intuition of a native speaker .
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The vowels were originally understood by native speakers and it was not necessary to provide them in writing.
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A primer is used to teach a non-reading native speaker of a language to read his own language.
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You select an Esperanto phrase, then hear the phrase as spoken by a native speaker .
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The situation is different for native speakers of the language who automatically perceive the speech as being chopped up into discrete units.
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This process is trivial for a native speaker of a language, however for a computer system the solution is more difficult.
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You will need one or more native speakers of the language to help you in your learning.
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Is it possible for people who are not native speakers of a particular language to be fully aware of its social dimensions?
species
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Zoologists say the problem's so bad native species could be at risk.
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Unchecked by natural predators and conditions, they reproduce by the millions, chasing out native species .
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The new Bill covers introduced as well as native species and will allow ministers to decide which animals may be commercially bred.
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However, it has been claimed that there are two native species of honey-producing wasps in California.
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The three native species are all winter visitors in the central and southern parts of the region.
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But 25 native species are endangered, seven to the verge of extinction.
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So many have been released in the wild that they're threatening native species .
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Stick to native species to ensure the tree is suitable for the soil in your area.
tongue
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An assistant began waving his arms and talking to the dealer noisily in his native tongue .
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At first it seems the girls are singing in their native tongue .
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The words, in his native tongue , were few and easy to learn.
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But for most of us our native tongue is alive and constantly shifting.
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It was weird, because it sure sounded like my native tongue .
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It is perfectly possible to communicate with little or no such similarity or else children would never learn their native tongue .
tree
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They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incident occurred.
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This is a lovely setting amongst native trees .
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The first fairway extends up over a gentle rise and into a forest of huge, native trees .
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We've planted every kind of native tree you could think of in a hedge, including crab apple and wayfarer tree.
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There are waterfalls and cascades, cliffs and rocks, native trees and rampant heather in an earthly paradise.
village
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Yang was also writing about his native village but he wrote about it at a distance when resident in New York.
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Much attention will be given to the local artisans and their work; participants visit them in their native villages .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's native soil
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a blend of native culture and Christianity
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After a few years, she was sent back to her native country.
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Domingo has homes in Monte Carlo and in his native Madrid.
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the region's native birds
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Consensys is looking to add a native Motif implementation for those that require it.
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No doubt Eliza spent hours scouring the beds and walkways for native plants to incorporate in her bird drawings.
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Some one thought of my self-portraits was of a native boy.
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They are native to dry and sterile regions.
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They marched directly to the native plants garden and knew exactly what to begin looking for.
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They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incident occurred.
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This led to the development of personal privilege and wealth as these native collaborators colluded in the exploitation of their compatriots.
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Until recently, however, native maps and mapping have tended to be treated as curiosities and in very narrow contexts.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was easy to tell the natives from the tourists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He remembered how innocently they had discussed which natives they would blow to smithereens and which they would grant a reprieve to.
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Sam Smith is one of many natives who wish good times had never come to Williamson County.
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She is a native of Ballinasloe and has many interests including reading, music and television.
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The natives are the ones manning the stalls selling papal T-shirts, key rings and statues.
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The only reasons for the establishment of Kuznetsk were to collect and trade in furs and control the natives.
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They often loaned firearms to the natives and opened their homes to them.
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We have to decipher these other natives of the forest if we want to understand the landscape.