Native and Representative

Native

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

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

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

Representative adjective - Having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind.

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Native and representative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Representative".

female	female native	female representative
alien	alien native	alien representative
single	single native	single representative
chosen	chosen native	chosen representative
Other adjectives: actual, real, male, beautiful, former, lone, last, different, local, resident.

Good Shepherd: The fiery little hill preacher Priscilla drags Owain to listen to is the book's main representative of the survival of native Christianity in Britain before the coming of Augustine.

Source: Literature / The Dolphin Ring
The second line of dialogue after the prologue reads, "Mais monsieur, your guest is an important man." This is representative of most conversations involving non-native English speakers in the book.

Source: Poirot Speak
In another instance, a character listening to a recording of Weyoun negotiating a ceasefire with a Federation representative turns the translator off, allowing him to hear what Weyoun actually said in his native language and pick up on a critical nuance the translator missed.

Source: Translator Microbes

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