naturalization

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

naturalisation training agreement resolution reduction conversion switch orientation adaptation correspondence assumption citizenship compliance accommodation adjustment

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Antonyms

denaturalization division fighting opposition challenge ban

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Hypernyms

introduction entry adoption debut launching borrowing

Phrases with the word

citizenship by naturalization

Examples

Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness. Pierre Bourdieu

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. Alice Schwarzer

said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human. Christopher Hitchens

the naturalization in English of many Italian words Source: Internet

A 2019 naturalization ceremony in Lowell, Mass. The pandemic has put such ceremonies on hold in an election year when many new citizens vote for the first time. Source: Internet

After 1926 in Italy, people who were deemed not to deserve the Italian citizenship or who were considered to represent a threat to the public order could lose their naturalization. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

naturalistically naturality naturalizable naturalize naturalized naturalized elsewhere