Islander and Native

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Islander noun - An inhabitant of an island.

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Native and islander are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Native" instead a noun "Islander".

Nearby Words: island, islanded

Native noun - A usually longtime resident of a locality.

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Islander and native are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Islander" with "Native", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

In these movies, he's played by Jason Momoa, a person of Pacific Islander and Native American descent (with some white heritage on his mother's side).

Source: Film / DC Extended Universe
Gratuitous German: Ferdinand sometimes has outbursts of German (which in-story is Islander language), mostly when it's Anna's POV and he switches to his native tongue.

Source: Fanfic / What About Witch Queen?
Ethnically, he was a native Hawaiian and she a Korean-American, but in practice the two ethnicities are visually close enough that "Asian/Pacific Islander" is often a category on surveys and you could honestly mistake one for the other with no malice.

Source: Race Lift / Diversifying A Cast

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