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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
native speaker
noun
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▪ You are shown a series of pictures which are described by phrases spoken by a native speaker.
▪ You select an Esperanto phrase, then hear the phrase as spoken by a native speaker.
Wiktionary
native speaker

n. A person who grew up with a particular language as their mother tongue.

WordNet
native speaker

n. a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood; "native speakers of French"

Wikipedia
Native Speaker (novel)

Native Speaker (1995) is Chang-Rae Lee’s first novel. In Native Speaker, he creates a man named Henry Park who tries to assimilate into American society.

Native Speaker (album)

Native Speaker is the debut studio album by the Canadian experimental pop/ art rock band Braids, released by Flemish Eye/ Kanine Records on January 18, 2011 (April 11 in the UK) to critical acclaim.

Native Speaker
Not to be confused with "Native speaker", see: First language.

Native Speaker may refer to:

  • Native Speaker (novel), a 1995 novel by Chang-Rae Lee
  • Native Speaker (album), a 2011 album by Canadian band Braids

Usage examples of "native speaker".

Definitely these are Halruaan spells, but the chant inflections are slightly off, as if the wizard were not a native speaker.

With these new hyperchips I should be able to access the terms almost as fast as a native speaker.

I have read them, in their hypothetical and reconstructed forms, though I had not, of course, heard them spoken by a native speaker.

By now, his German was fluent enough that, for a few words or a few sentences at a time, he could be mistaken for a native speaker, though not one from his listener's home region, whatever that happened to be.

The expert waited for the other to reassure her, meanwhile retrieving a complete suit readout indicating fatigue toxins and mild hypothermia and analyzing the vocal patterns to conclude that this individual was a pubertal human female, a native speaker of Gaesh with the accent common to the nearby merchanters of the Familias Regnant rather than that of the Guerni Republic.