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native-born

adj

Etymology

From native + born.

  1. derived from *beraną✻ — “to bear, carry”
  2. inherited from *buranaz✻
  3. inherited from *boran✻
  4. inherited from boren
  5. inherited from born
  6. compounded as native-born — “native + born”

Definitions

  1. Being a native and inhabitant of the same place

    Being a native and inhabitant of the same place; living where one was born.

    • Our conversation was entirely in Malay, as that is the official language here, and in fact the mother-tongue and only language of the controlleur, who is a native-born half-breed.
    • The native-born and the "naturalised" locomotives have been giving way to the standardised types, of which the L.M.S.R. class "5" 4-6-0 has led the way and has penetrated the furthest.

  2. Born in the country of citizenship.

    • “There are a lot of jobs in the US that native-born people don’t want – and foreign-born people are happy to have,” said Stephanie Roth, chief economist at Wolfe Research.

  3. A person who was born in the country of their citizenship.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A person who was born as a citizen of a specified country.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for native-born. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA