Native vs Archaic - 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.
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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).
(archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘
* 1958 , Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology , University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
(paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens .
* 2009 , The Human Lineage , page 432:
Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
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* 1898 , , The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast :
(of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
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Belonging to the archaic period
Native is a related term of archaic.
As adjectives the difference between native and archaic
is that native is belonging to the native inhabitants of the americas or australia; in particular: while archaic is of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.As nouns the difference between native and archaic
is that native is an aboriginal inhabitant of the americas or australia; in particular: while archaic is (archaeology|us|usually capitalized) a general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘[http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/paleo-indian paleo-indian]’, ‘paleo-american’, ‘american‐paleolithic’, &c ) of human presence in the western hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘woodland’, etc).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
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English
Noun
(en noun)Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c .) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
- [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
- [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
Adjective
(en adjective)- A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic , the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.
- There is in the best archaic coin work [of the Greeks] ... a strength and a delicacy which are often wanting in the fully developed art of a later age.
- Brann's compass of words, idioms and phrases harks back to the archaic and reaches forward to the futuristic.''
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