naturalized

American  

[nach-er-uh-lahyzd] / ˈnætʃ ər əˌlaɪzd /

adjective

1. having been given the rights and privileges of citizenship after immigrating from another country.

2. (of an athlete) playing for a particular country's national team on the basis of having met certain criteria of residency or ancestry while not being a citizen of that country.

3. (of organisms) having become established in a region as if native there after being introduced from a different one.

4. (of a garden, wetland, or other area) intentionally populated with mostly native species which are then allowed to flourish and grow wild with little or no human intervention.

5. (of landscaping) involved in planting or managing such gardens, areas, etc.

6. (of a word or custom) having become mainstream in a particular language or culture after being introduced or borrowed from a foreign one.

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Other Word Forms

• denaturalized adjective
• non-naturalized adjective
• renaturalized adjective

Example Sentences

The language of the amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

From BBC

The 34-year-old election frontrunner was born in Uganda to a family of Indian origin and has lived in the United States since he was seven, becoming a naturalized US citizen in 2018.

From Barron's

Tellis, a naturalized American originally from India, helped negotiate the Bush administration's civil nuclear cooperation deal with India, a landmark step to closer relations between the world's two largest democracies.

From Barron's

Tellis, a naturalized US citizen originally from India, is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served in senior positions under former president George W. Bush.

From Barron's

Liu is a Chinese national and two of her children are Americans through being born in the U.S., while her daughter, Grace, is naturalized through marriage.

From The Wall Street Journal