General and Native

General

General adjective - Belonging or relating to the whole.

Native and general are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Native" instead an adjective "General".

Native

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.

General and native are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "General" instead an adjective "Native".

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

Both words in one sentence

  • This shows up in the Discworld book Jingo, where a Klatchian general insults an Ankh-Morpork general by slipping into his native tongue, and passing it off as an old Klatchian saying.
  • Alien Among Us They quickly attempt to disguise him as a native, so not to raise questions later by the general public.
  • Literature / The Belgariad aka: The Malloreon Much of this would come, of course, both from his native culture and that he is a specialist in the field rather than general medicine.
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