naturalization
Nouns
- (n) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature naturalisation,
- (n) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship naturalisation,
- (n) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous naturalisation,
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(n) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology
- the naturalization in English of many Italian words