native-born

[ ney-tiv-bawrn ]

/ ˈneɪ tɪvˈbɔrn /

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adjective

born in the place or country indicated: a native-born Australian.

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Origin of native-born

First recorded in 1490–1500

Words nearby native-born

native, native advertising, Native American, Native Americans, native bear, native-born, native bush, native Canadian, native cat, native companion, native dog

How to use native-born in a sentence

The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
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Cosby conspiracy theorists share a perspective born of a long, pained history of American racism.
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A few months later, after their children were born, we visited the men and women again.
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Yung Lean was born Jonatan Leandoer Håstad in Belarus, before moving to Sweden at the age of 3.
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Little did I know that Lee had actually been born into a wealthy family.
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To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.
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His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
She came to know the peculiarities of nearly all native trees.
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A native of Haarlem on Zandam, the date of her birth being unknown.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement

British Dictionary definitions for native-born

native-born

adjective

born in the country or area indicated

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