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native speaker

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who grew up with a particular spoken language as their mother tongue.

    • Native speakers of English get paid much more than locals in the schools.
    • The differences between acceptable constructions like "Have you a book on modern music?" and unacceptable ones like "Read you a book on modern music?" need no Chomskyan signposts for a native speaker[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for native speaker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA