Naturalization

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Naturalization \Nat`u*ral*i*za"tion\, 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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  naturalization
       n 1: the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
            [syn: {naturalisation}]
       2: the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
          [syn: {naturalisation}]
       3: the introduction of animals or plants to places where they
          flourish but are not indigenous [syn: {naturalisation}]
       4: changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with
          the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English
          of many Italian words" [syn: {naturalisation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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-face