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native-born

a. being a native and inhabitant of the same place

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native-born

adj. belonging to a place by birth; "a native-born Scot"; "a native Scot"

Usage examples of "native-born".

A native-born mutineer, even then Gina had what she called a thing against authority.

A tradition had been passed down from his grandfather, the first native-born ancestor, who had come to love the mers as he loved this world, and made his lands a sanctuary.

The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled.

Court declared that aliens while domiciled in this country owe a temporary allegiance to it and may be punished for treason equally with a native-born citizen in the absence of a treaty stipulation to the contrary.

Everyone knew that the Lords of the Resurgency would sooner use the Circles than their own agents, and sooner the Adept-worlders than the native-born.

Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are all the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native-born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

In Chicago, German revolutionaries, along with native-born radicals like Albert Parsons, formed Social Revolutionary clubs.

Irish Catholic weavers and native-born Protestant skilled workers over issues of religion.

Even though he had ten years on the brash young horseman, who was probably not yet thirty, Mourtzouphlos was native-born, which more than canceled the advantage of age.

George is apt to turn his hand to anything—false passports, keyhole-peering, blackjacking prominent savants in the street… " "I am a native-born British citizen," said the swarthy little half-breed, with an ugly glare at Mallory.

It was the custom of his planet, for Geb had been one of those very rare beings in Battle Fleet: a native-born son of Birhat.

We know how confusing we find it when native-born Japanese people speak English without distinguishing / and r: imagine the confusion if our alphabet did the same while similarly homogenizing the other consonants that I mentioned!

The politics and morality of illegal immigration meant nothing to the Ghost but he wondered if Coe knew that there were proportionally fewer Chinese-Americans on welfare than any other nationality, including native-born whites.

The Axumite naval commander-he was a native-born Ethiopian-gave Ousanas a sour glance.