natural-born

[ nach-er-uhl-bawrn, nach-ruhl- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

native-born.
by virtue of one's nature, qualities, or innate talent:
a natural-born musician.

natural-born

First recorded in 1575–85

Instead, the ISIS moviemakers reach back 20 years to Natural Born Killers in terms of effects.

It trips me out when 20-year-olds come up to me on the street and are like, “I loved Natural Born Killers!”

Once again, Hillary Clinton has reminded us that she is not a natural-born politician—unlike her husband, Bill.

However, most legal scholars believe that anyone who is a citizen at birth is "natural born."

And while Jay and Obama are in very different fields, they are both natural-born front men.

The House also resolved that all the seven thousand men who were to be retained should be natural born English subjects.

The three estates of the realm are the three orders (tats) into which all natural-born subjects are legally divided: viz.

Yet the American air takes the fight out of the Irishman, the rose from his cheek, and makes a natural-born politician out of him.

He is a natural born king and tries to imitate the manners, as he understands them, of European monarchs.

John Yardley, as the saying goes, was a natural born wagoner.

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