n. The admission or adoption of foreign words or customs into general use.
n. The introduction and establishment of an animal or plant into a place where it is not indigenous.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of naturalizing, or the state of being naturalized; specifically, in law, the act of receiving an alien into the condition, and investing him with the rights and privileges, of a natural subject or citizen.
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n. the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
n. the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
n. the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous
n. changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology
Word Usage
"Our term naturalization signifies essentially the same thing; viz., that the subject is made to be a natural born"