native-born

English

Etymology

From native +‎ born.

Adjective

native-born (not comparable)

1. Being a native and inhabitant of the same place; living where one was born.
   • 1958 July, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:

     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.

2. Born in the country of citizenship.
   • 2025 July 25, Matt Egan, “How Trump’s mass deportations could backfire on the American economy by shrinking paychecks”, in CNN Business‎:

     “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.

Noun

native-born (plural native-borns)

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

Translations

native-born

Bulgarian: местен (bg) (mesten), туземен (bg) (tuzemen) Danish: indfødt Faroese: innføddur Finnish: syntyperäinen (fi) Icelandic: innfæddur Norwegian: Bokmål: innfødt Nynorsk: innfødd Swedish: infödd (sv)

See also

• natural-born

References

• “native-born”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.