Weâre grateful to our uniformed Heroes, the Police, Fire and First Responders. We appreciate them even more due to the fateful day that changed our lives forever, 9/11! Here is the 2014 celebration of the men and women who protect, serve, and save.
â¢ NATIVE (noun). The noun NATIVE has 1 sense: 1. a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous person. Familiarity information: NATIVE used as a noun is very rare.. characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin. 2. belonging to one by birth. 3. characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning. 4. as found in nature in the elemental form. Familiarity information: NATIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.
2. I'd guess that native or bilingual is intended to mean that the language was spoken in the household in which you were raised rather than learned in the first instance at school, bilingual here meaning that you grew up in a household in which more than one language was spoken. â StoneyB Oct 16 '12 at 11:39.