Native vs Tenant - What's the difference?
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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.
* (rfdate) (Cudworth)
Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
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).
One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
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One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
* Cowper
* Cowley
* Byron
(legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
Native is a related term of tenant.
As nouns the difference between native and tenant
is that native is an aboriginal inhabitant of the americas or australia; in particular: while tenant is one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.As an adjective native
is belonging to the native inhabitants of the americas or australia; in particular:.As a verb tenant is
to hold as, or be, a tenant.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.
Usage notes
* In North America, (m)/(m) came into use as an umbrella term for the indigenous inhabitants of America as (m) began to fall out of formal usage (because it originated from Columbus's mistaken belief that he was in India and the people he encountered were Indians). Other designations include (m), (Native Canadian), and (m). In Canada, the terms include (Inuit) and (Metis) and the adjectives (m)/(m).Synonyms
* (l)See also
* native cat * nativity * nativizationStatistics
* ----tenant
English
Alternative forms
* tenaunt (obsolete) * tennant (obsolete) * tennaunt (obsolete)Noun
(Leasehold estate) (en noun)- sweet tenants of this grove
- the happy tenant of your shade
- the sister tenants of the middle deep