English dictionary, thesaurus, translations & etymology
FreeDict.com

ме́стный — meaning in English

mestnyy

Russian → English · translate English → Russian instead

English meaning

  • Aboriginal adj Relating to the original, native inhabitants of a region, especially before colonization.
  • autochthonous adj Belonging naturally to the place where it is found.
  • domestic adj Relating to the home or family life.
  • grassroots adj Coming from ordinary people at a local level, rather than from leaders or organizations at the top.
  • indigenous adj Originating naturally in a particular place; native, especially before colonization or outside influence.
  • local adj Belonging to or existing in a particular, nearby area.
  • native noun Someone who was born in a particular place.
  • vernacular noun The everyday, informal language spoken by ordinary people in a particular place, as opposed to formal or literary language.

Senses

ме́стный is used for these senses in English:

  • aboriginal First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
  • autochthonous Native to the place where found; indigenous.
  • domestic Internal to a specific country.
  • grassroots Of, or relating to people or society at the local level, particularly in politics, social movements, etc.; of the grass roots.
  • local (group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
  • local (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
  • local A person who lives in or near a given place.
  • native Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.

Aboriginal — full definition

  1. adj Relating to the original, native inhabitants of a region, especially before colonization.
  2. noun (often capitalized, Aboriginal) A member of the indigenous peoples of Australia.

autochthonous — full definition

  1. adj Belonging naturally to the place where it is found.
  2. adj Having come into being in the very place where it is now found.
  3. adj Describes a fossil that stayed exactly where the creature died, without being moved or broken apart afterwards.
Vocabulary Flow
Learn more English words in Russian.
Vocabulary Flow serves English words with the Russian meaning, one at a time — pronunciation and an example each time. Scroll it either direction.
Learn English in Russian

Related Russian words