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ме́стный — meaning in English

mestnyy

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English meaning

  • Aboriginal adj Relating to the original, native inhabitants of a region, especially before colonization.
  • autochthonous adj Native to the place where found; indigenous.
  • 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 Native to the place where found; indigenous.
  2. adj Originating where found; found where it originates.
  3. adj Buried in place, especially of a fossil preserved in its life position without disturbance or disarticulation.

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