Native and Relative

Native

Native noun - A usually longtime resident of a locality.

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

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

Relative noun - A person connected with another by blood or marriage.

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Native and relative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Native" instead a noun "Relative".

female	female native	female relative
future	future native	future relative
true	true native	true relative
single	single native	single relative
Other adjectives: poor, actual, male, living, young, last, different, surviving, giant, European.

The leaders in the game generally speak in their native language or a modern day relative.

Source: Translation Train Wreck
A recent outgrowth of the tech boom in Houston and Austin is that many people newly immigrated to the US will take on this accent, although most depictions in media still give recent immigrants New York, California or neutral (relative to their native) accents.

Source: Useful Notes / American Accents
Subverted as the twin was never a blood relative but a dream parasite that went native.

Source: Characters / Sunless Sea

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