native-born
nounEtymology From native + born.
1
A person who was born in the country of their citizenship.
2
A person who was born as a citizen of a specified country.
- Antonyms
- foreign-born, naturalized
- Related terms
- natural-born
native-born
adjEtymology From native + born.
1
Being a native and inhabitant of the same place; living where one was born.
- Our conversation was entirely in Malay, as that is the official language here, and in fact the mother-tongue and only language of the controlleur, who is a native-born half-breed.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 384:
- The native-born and the "naturalised" locomotives have been giving way to the standardised types, of which the L.M.S.R. class "5" 4-6-0 has led the way and has penetrated the furthest.1958 July 23, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:
2
Born in the country of citizenship.
- “There are a lot of jobs in the US that native-born people don’t want – and foreign-born people are happy to have,” said Stephanie Roth, chief economist at Wolfe Research.2025 July 25, Matt Egan, “How Trump’s mass deportations could backfire on the American economy by shrinking paychecks”, in CNN Business: