Usually means: Original inhabitants of a region.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word natives:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. natives: Merriam-Webster
  2. natives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. natives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Native's, Natives, native's, natives: Wordnik
  5. natives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Natives, natives: Wiktionary
  7. natives: Dictionary.com
  8. natives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Natives (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Natives: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. natives: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. natives: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natives: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natives: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See native as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (native)

adjective:  Belonging to one by birth.
adjective:  Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
adjective:  Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
adjective:  (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
adjective:  (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
adjective:  (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
adjective:  Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
adjective:  Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
adjective:  Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
noun:  A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
noun:  (in particular) A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
noun:  A native speaker.
noun:  Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.
adjective:  Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
adjective:  (US, Canada) Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.
adjective:  (Australia, New Zealand) Aboriginal; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines.
adjective:  (South Africa) Related to black Africans, especially Bantu.
noun:  An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
noun:  (US, Canada) A Native American.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) An Aborigine.
noun:  (South Africa, dated, possibly offensive) A black African, especially a Bantu.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia). [Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)]
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