NATIVE SPEAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does native speaker mean? 

• NATIVE SPEAKER (noun)
  The noun NATIVE SPEAKER has 1 sense:

1. a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood

  Familiarity information: NATIVE SPEAKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIVE SPEAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

native speakers of French

Hypernyms ("native speaker" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))