naturalised
IPA: nˈætʃrʌɫaɪzd
adjective
- planted so as to give an effect of wild growth
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Examples of "naturalised" in Sentences
- After all, the positive register of Queen Mab includes the notion of variegation, a kind of naturalised complexity.
- Its destination was Whidbey, a small island off Seattle, where Pauline, a naturalised American married to an American, is buried.
- I like that people whose ancestors hailed from all over the world can be born or be adopted or be naturalised as British citizens.
- Fifa statutes say however that, in addition to being granted nationality, a naturalised player must have lived in his adopted country for at least five years.
- With of course a not quite good enough (for England) Irish player, by grandparents, now naturalised and therefore qualifying by residence. on April 22, 2010 at 5: 11 pm Mad MOP
- But confronted with this "naturalised" spelling, people started pronouncing the word as if it were "Poonjab" in an uninformed effort at pronouncing the "u" in an authentic foreign way.
- Meanwhile, ABC News reported that authorities were closing in on "a person of interest," described as a naturalised American citizen who hails from Pakistan who just returned from a five-month stay in that country.
- It seems that the Rev William Arthur did not become a naturalised citizen until 1843, which according to a couple of the Birther sites (here and here) means that his son was not a "natural born citizen" of the United States.
- As for words of foreign origin, most have become "naturalised" into English, so that they do not need to be italicised or capitalised; for example, the German noun Poltergeist is adopted as poltergeist, and Wanderlust as wanderlust.
- Using records at The National Archives, this talk examines the various Alien Acts that affected the status of foreigners resident in the UK from the 19th century, and the reasons why so many chose to become naturalised British citizens
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