natal

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[ˈneɪtl], (Adjective)

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- relating to the place or time of one's birth
(e.g: he was living in the south, many miles from his natal city)


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late Middle English: from Latin natalis, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci


[ˈneɪtl], (Adjective)

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- relating to the buttocks
(e.g: the natal cleft)


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late 19th century: from nates + -al


[nəˈtɑːl], (Noun)

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- a former province of South Africa, situated on the east coast. Having been a Boer republic and then a British colony, Natal acquired internal self-government in 1893 and became a province of the Union of South Africa in 1910. It was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in 1994

- a port on the Atlantic coast of north-eastern Brazil, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte; population 774,230 (2007)


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