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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun naturalization has 4 senses
- naturalization(n = noun.attribute) naturalisation - the quality of being brought into conformity with nature; Array is a kind of naturalness
- naturalization(n = noun.act) naturalisation - the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship; Array is a kind of legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings
- naturalization(n = noun.act) naturalisation - the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous; Array is a kind of debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling
- naturalization(n = noun.act) naturalisation - changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English of many Italian words" is a kind of adoption, borrowing
Derived forms verb naturalize5, verb naturalize4
Derived form verb naturalize1
Derived form verb naturalize5
Derived form verb naturalize3
CIDE DICTIONARY
naturalization, 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]
THESAURUS
naturalization
Americanization, about-face, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, acculturation, accustoming, adaption, adjustment, admission, adoption, affiliation, alchemy, 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-faceROGET THESAURUS
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Conformity
N conformity, conformance, observance, habituation, naturalization, conventionality, agreement, example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation, exemplification, illustration, case in point, object lesson, elucidation, standard, model, pattern, rule, nature, principle, law, order of things, normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition, standing dish, standing order, Procrustean law, law of the Medes and Persians, hard and fast rule, conformable to rule, regular, according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter, en regle, selon les regles, well regulated, orderly, symmetric, conventional, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence, in the natural order of things, ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday, in the order of the day, naturalized, typical, normal, nominal, formal, canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean, secundum artem, shipshape, technical, exempIe, illustrative, in point, conformably, by rule, agreeably to, in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with, according to, consistently with, as usual, ad instar, instar omnium, more solito, more-majorum, for the sake of conformity, as a matter of course, of course, pro forma, for form's sake, by the card, invariably, for example, exempli gratia, e, g, inter alia, among other things, for instance, cela va sans dire, ex pede Herculem, noscitur a sociis, ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat, they are happy men whose natures sort with their v, The nail that sticks up hammered down, Tall poppy syndrome, Stick your neck out and it may get cut off.Conversion
N conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation, evolution, sea change, change of state, assumption, naturalization, transportation, development, developing, conversion of currency, exchange of currency, exchange rate, bureau de change, chemistry, alchemy, progress, growth, lapse, flux, passage, transit, transition, transmigration, shifting, phase, conjugation, convertibility, crucible, alembic, caldron, retort, convert, pervert, renegade, apostate, converted into, convertible, resolvable into, transitional, naturalized, gradually, &c (slowly) 275 in transitu.Location
N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.
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