Native vs Massachusettsian - What's the difference?
native | massachusettsian |
Belonging to one by birth.
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
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Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
(biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.
(computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
(mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
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Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
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A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
(lb) A person of aboriginal stock, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
(dated) A native or resident of .
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*:That he was a Virginian and I a Massachusettsian .
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*:A young Massachusettsian (is this correct orthography?), by name Nathaniel II. Bishop, a mere lad of seventeen, who, prompted by a love of nature, starts off from his New England home, reaches the La Plata River, and coolly "walks" to Valparaiso, across pampa and cordillera, a distance of more than a thousand miles !
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*:Chadwick (54), though a Massachusettsian by birth, residence, and position is not so by preordination. He has a directness of thought, a humour, and a power of seeing himself as others see him that smack more of London or Paris than of Boston.
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*:Much to the chagrin of many a Massachusettsian , on January 29, 1 842, Secretary of State Daniel Webster dispatched directions to the US ambassador to Great Britain in support of Calhoun's resolutions.
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*:The minor appointments were the Virginian Edmund Randolph as attorney general and the Massachusettsian Henry Knox as secretary of war.
As nouns the difference between native and massachusettsian
is that native is a person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place while Massachusettsian is a native or resident of Massachusetts.As an adjective native
is belonging to one by birth.native
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This is my native land.
- English is not my native language.
- I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
- What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
- The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.
- a native inhabitant
- native oysters or strawberries
- Many native artists studied abroad.
- The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
- This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
- The native integer size is sixteen bits.
- Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native , rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
- native dust
- (Milton)
- The head is not more native to the heart, / Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
Antonyms
* foreign, fremdDerived terms
* go native * native soil * native speaker * native witNoun
(en noun)- Some natives must have stolen our cattle.