MEANING
1. The legal process by which a person who is not a citizen becomes a citizen of a country.
2. The establishment of an introduced species in a place where it is not native.
3. The adaptation of a borrowed word to the pronunciation or forms of the receiving language.
Use it for
distinguishing citizenship acquisition from residence; analyzing changes in legal membership of a state; comparing eligibility rules without equating birthplace with nationalitySeparates acquisition of citizenship from native-like establishment of species or borrowed words. Academic functions: Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- the naturalization process
- naturalization requirements
- naturalization papers
On the page
The study distinguishes naturalization from the granting of permanent residence.
Birthplace alone does not determine whether a person must undergo naturalization.
The review distinguishes the introduction of a plant from its later naturalization.
Naturalization does not by itself establish that a species has harmful invasive effects.
The essay distinguishes borrowing a word from the naturalization of its pronunciation.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- naturalization
Usage notes
Normally uncountable. Naturalizations can refer to separate grants or processes. British naturalisation is a spelling variant. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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