Definition of Native-born

1. Adjective. Belonging to a place by birth. "A native Scot"

Similar to: Native

Definition of Native-born

1. Adjective. being a native and inhabitant of the same place ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Native-born

nationally
nationalness
nationals
nationhood
nationhoods
nationism
nationisms
nationist
nationists
nationless
nationlike
nations
nationwide
natisite
native
native-born (current term)
native Australian
native albumin
native aluminium
native bear
native beech
native cat
native cats
native code
native codes
native companion
native companions
native conformation
native cranberry
native element

Literary usage of Native-born

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1896)
"Were all our native-born population of mixed parentage (ie one parent native and one parent foreign) it would still furnish but a moderate ratio of ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1873)
"The group of men I have in mind first (and when I say ''men" I mean those men or women in whom we wish to instil our "Americanism") are the native born. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Article III declared " that a member must lx> a native-born citizen, a Protestant either born ol Protestant parents or reared under Protestant influence, ..."

4. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"The connection between the agricultural character of the population of this class of settlements and the ratio of native-born children to native women of ..."

5. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"for the state of New York.3 In 1910, at the age period 45 to 49, the death rate among native-born white males was 16.6 per 1000, whereas the rate for the ..."

6. A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"The total native born felons were used instead of the native white and native ... Table 52 shows that the native born felons have a larger mean number of ..."

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