native-born
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈneɪtɪv bɔrn/
:
nacido en
- Many native-born residents feel a strong connection to their hometown.
Examples
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Both men and women, at least if they were native-born, married early in the seventeenth century.
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"Our community, which started with soldiers and workers, is now mostly native-born and knows no other home.
Academic text (1996) -
Any native-born American over 35 has a chance.
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Prior to World War I, few native-born Americans had thought of the immigration "problem" in cultural terms.
Academic text (1991) -
Are the larger families found among the native-born, among the homeowners, among those of average or superior school training?
Academic text (1996) -
The study revealed no significant differences in job satisfaction between other international faculty groups and their native-born colleagues.
Academic text (2011) -
Whites and the native-born were considered best suited for skilled jobs and positions of responsibility.
Academic text (2012) -
The sample was ethnically and racially diverse and included both immigrant and native-born students.
Academic text (1995) -
To what extent are American Muslims, both native-born and naturalized, being radicalized by Islamists?
Academic text (2011) -
Inevitably, all Americans, native-born and immigrant, were involved in a continual renegotiation of identities.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
37
3.3
Produced locally in the same area instead of brought from elsewhere
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4.0
A person who grew up in a place or family and feels a strong connection to it
A person born in a place who is a native of that city or region
Raised at home rather than brought from another place
Antonyms
How Native
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word native-born comes from native, a word that originally meant 'born', and the word born, so it literally means someone who was 'born in' a place rather than having moved there.