native-born

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native-born

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From native + born.

adjective

not comparable 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.
not comparable 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.

noun native-borns

A person who was born in the country of their citizenship.
A person who was born as a citizen of a specified country.

Opposite: foreign-born, naturalized

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Opposite: foreign-born, naturalized

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@misc{native_born_2026,
  title = {native-born},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/native-born},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}