'Naturalization' definitions:
Definition of 'naturalization'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being brought into conformity with nature [syn: naturalization, naturalisation]
noun
The proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship [syn: naturalization, naturalisation]
noun
The introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous [syn: naturalization, naturalisation]
noun
Changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English of many Italian words" [syn: naturalization, naturalisation]
Definition of 'Naturalization'
From: GCIDE
- Naturalization \Nat`u*ral*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. naturalisation.] The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'naturalization'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- about-face,
- acclimation,
- acclimatization,
- accommodation,
- acculturation,
- accustoming,
- adaption,
- adjustment,
- admission,
- adoption,
- affiliation,
- alchemy,
- Americanization,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- becoming,
- breaking,
- breaking-in,
- case hardening,
- change,
- change-over,
- citizenship by naturalization,
- citizenship papers,
- conditioning,
- conversion,
- culture shock,
- domestication,
- familiarization,
- flip-flop,
- growth,
- habituation,
- hardening,
- housebreaking,
- inurement,
- lapse,
- nationalization,
- naturalized citizenship,
- orientation,
- papers,
- passage,
- progress,
- re-formation,
- reconversion,
- reduction,
- resolution,
- reversal,
- seasoning,
- shift,
- switch,
- switch-over,
- taming,
- training,
- transformation,
- transit,
- transition,
- turning into,
- volte-face
Words containing 'Naturalization'
- Natural,
- Naturalism,
- Naturality,
- Naturalize,
- Naturalized,
- Naturalizing,
- Naturally,
- Naturalness,
- Nature,
- Natured,
- Naturism,
- Naturity,
- Naturize,
- by nature,
- Debt of nature,
- Good nature,
- Ill nature,
- In a state of nature,
- Law of nature,
- Natural Bridge,
- Natural Harmony,
- Natural day,
- Natural draught,
- Natural father,
- Natural fats,
- Natural gas,
- Natural history,
- Natural law,
- Natural logarithm,
- Natural magic,
- Natural modulation,
- Natural order,
- Natural person,
- Natural philosophy,
- Natural product,
- Natural religion,
- Natural scale,
- Natural science,
- Natural selection,
- Natural sines,
- Natural steel,
- Natural system,
- Natural tangent,
- Natural theology,
- Natural vowel,
- Nature printing,
- Nature worship,
- animal nature,
- evil nature,
- human nature,
- inner nature,
- natural ability,
- natural action,
- natural childbirth,
- natural covering,
- natural depression,
- natural elevation,
- natural enclosure,
- natural endowment,
- natural event,
- natural family,
- natural fiber,
- natural fibre,
- natural glass,
- natural immunity,
- natural indigo,
- natural language,
- natural magnet,
- natural number,
- natural object,
- natural phenomenon,
- natural process,
- natural resin,
- natural resource,
- natural resources,
- natural right,
- natural rubber,
- natural scientist,
- natural shape,
- natural spring,
- natural state,
- natural virtue,
- natural world,
- naturally occurring,
- nature study,
- second nature,
- state of nature,
- Fair-natured,
- Good-nature,
- Good-natured,
- Good-naturedly,
- Ill-natured,
- Ill-naturedly,
- Natural Bridge, AL,
- Natural Bridge, NY,
- Natural product chemistry,
- To pay the debt of nature,
- Well-natured,
- ill-nature,
- immigration and naturalization service,
- natural family planning,
- natural language processing,
- natural language processor,
- natural yellow 8,
- natural language processing application,
- royal society of london for improving natural knowledge