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- DictionaryNatal/nəˈtal/
- 1. 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.
- 2. 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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NATAL definition: 1. relating to where a person or animal was born: 2. relating to the birth of babies: 3. relating…. Learn more.
1. : native. 2. : of, relating to, or present at birth. especially : associated with one's birth. a natal star. Examples of natal in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web Her natal Jupiter retrograde may infer that Harris struggles with her political stance and judgment.
Natal definition: of or relating to a person's birth. See examples of NATAL used in a sentence.
1. of or relating to birth. 2. a rare word for native. natal instincts. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C14: from Latin nātālis of one's birth, from nātus, from nascī to be born. natal in British English. (ˈneɪtəl ) adjective. anatomy. of or relating to the buttocks. Collins English Dictionary.
Definition of natal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Origin of Natal. From Latin nātālis (“natal" ), from nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born" ), from gnāscor, from Proto-Indo-European *genh₁-. From Portuguese Natal (“Christmas" ), because the region in South Africa was discovered by the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama on Christmas Day, 1497.
natal meaning, definition, what is natal: relating to birth: Learn more.
