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Native Definition–adjective | 1. | being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land. |
| 2. | belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent: native ability; native grace. |
| 3. | belonging by birth to a people regarded as indigenous to a certain place, esp. a preliterate people: Native guides accompanied the expedition through the rain forest. |
| 4. | of indigenous origin, growth, or production: native pottery. |
| 5. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the indigenous inhabitants of a place or country: native customs; native dress. |
| 6. | born in a particular place or country: a native New Yorker. |
| 7. | of or pertaining to a language acquired by a person before or to the exclusion of any other language: Her native language is Greek. <
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| 8. | pertaining to or characteristic of a person using his or her native language: a native speaker of English; native command of a language. |
| 9. | under the rule of natives: a native government. |
| 10. | occupied by natives: the native quarter of Algiers. |
| 11. | remaining or growing in a natural state; unadorned or unchanged: the native beauty of a desert island. |
| 12. | forming the sourc
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| 13. | originating naturally in a particular country or region, as animals or plants. |
| 14. | found in nature rather than produced artificially, as a mineral substance: the difference between native and industrial diamonds. |
| 15. | Chemistry, Mineralogy. (of metals) occurring in nature pure or uncombined: native copper. |
| 16. | belonging to a person as a birthright: to deprive a person of his native rights. |
| 17. | Computers. | a. | designed for use with a specific type of computer: writing native applications for 32-bit PCs. |
| b. | internal to a specific application program: to view the file in its native format. |
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| 18. | Archaic. closely related, as by birth. |
–noun | 19. | one of the people indigenous to a place or country, esp. as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.: the natives of Chile. |
| 20. | a person born in a particular place or country: a native of Ohio. |
| 21. | an organism indigenous to a particular region. |
| 22. | British. an oyster reared in British waters, esp. in an artificial bed. |
| 23. | Astrology. a person born under a particular planet. |
—Idiom| 24. | go native, Informal. to adopt or affect the manners or way of life of a place or environment that is different from one's own, esp. a less developed country: After living on the island for a year, we went native and began to wear the local costume. |
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American Definition–adjective | 1. | of or pertaining to the United States of America or its inhabitants: an American citizen. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to North or South America; of the Western Hemisphere: the American continents.
| 3. | of or pertaining to the aboriginal Indians of North and South America, usually excluding the Eskimos, regarded as being of Asian ancestry and marked generally by reddish to brownish skin, black hair, dark eyes, and prominent cheekbones. |
–noun | 4. | a citizen of the United States of America. |
| 5. | a native or inhabitant of the Western Hemisphere. |
| 6. | an Indian of North or South America. |
| 8. | a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and no rear truck. |
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Art Definition–noun | 1. | the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. |
| 2. | the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection. |
| 3. | a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art. |
| 4. | the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture. |
| 5. | any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art. |
| 6. | (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story? |
| 7. | the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling. |
| 8. | the craft or trade using these principles or methods. |
| 9. | skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation. |
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| 11. | arts, | a. | (used with a singular verb ) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences. |
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| 12. | skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature. |
| 13. | trickery; cunning: glib and devious art. |
| 14. | studied action; artificiality in behavior. |
| 15. | an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics. |
| 16. | Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship. |
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From Dictionary
Related topics from BritannicaNative American arts
arts of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas. Native American arts are treated in a number of articles. See Native American literature, which includes a discussion of the oral tradition; Native ...
Native American art
the visual art of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas, often called American Indians. For a further discussion of the visual art of the Americas produced in the period after European contact, ...
Native American
member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, although the term often connotes only those groups whose original territories were in present-day Canada and the United States.art
a visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination. The term art encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative ...
Latin American art
artistic traditions that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in 1492 and 1500, respectively, and continuing to the ...
arts, the
modes of expression that use skill or imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.arts, Western
the literary, performing, and visual arts of Europe and regions that share a European cultural tradition, including the United States and Canada.decorative art
any of those arts that are concerned with the design and decoration of objects that are chiefly prized for their utility, rather than for their purely aesthetic qualities. Ceramics, glassware, ...
art criticism
the analysis and evaluation of works of art. More subtly, art criticism is often tied to theory; it is interpretive, involving the effort to understand a particular work of art from a theoretical ...
Latin American architecture
history of architecture in Mesoamerica, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean beginning after contact with the Spanish and Portuguese in 1492 and 1500, respectively, and continuing to the ...
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