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NATIVE-BORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does native-born mean? 

NATIVE-BORN (adjective)
  The adjective NATIVE-BORN has 1 sense:

1. belonging to a place by birthplay

  Familiarity information: NATIVE-BORN used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NATIVE-BORN (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging to a place by birth

Context example:

a native Scot

Similar:

native (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin)


 Context examples 


He and the two mates, are as I learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are Finns and Germans.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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