Alternative forms

• naturalise

Etymology

From Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#NATURALIZE naturaliserCategory:English undefined derivations#NATURALIZE. By surface analysis, natural +‎ -izeCategory:English terms suffixed with -ize#NATURALIZE.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæt͡ʃəɹəˌlaɪz/, /ˈnæt͡ʃɹəˌlaɪz/Category:English 4-syllable words#NATURALIZECategory:English 3-syllable words#NATURALIZECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#NATURALIZE

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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Verb

naturalize (third-person singular simple present naturalizes, present participle naturalizing, simple past and past participle naturalized)Category:English lemmas#NATURALIZECategory:English verbs#NATURALIZECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NATURALIZECategory:Pages with entries#NATURALIZECategory:Pages with 2 entries#NATURALIZE

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#NATURALIZE) To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
   • 1964, Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, “History”, in Japan: Its Land, People and Culture‎, Revised edition, Printing Bureau, Ministry of Finance, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:

     Pakche was destroyed and five years later, Kokuryo was also swept away by T’ang and Silla. T’ang set up An-tontu-hu-fu (Government headquarters) at P’ing jang to rule the former territories of Pakche and Kokuryo. Many refugees from these destroyed states came to Japan and became naturalized as Japanese.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#NATURALIZE) To acclimatize an animal or plant.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 8, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

     Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.

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3. To make natural.

   Custom naturalizes labour or study.Category:English terms with usage examples#NATURALIZE

4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#NATURALIZE) To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
6. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#NATURALIZE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#NATURALIZE) To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologueCategory:English links with manual fragments#NATURALIZE of each phonemeCategory:English links with manual fragments#NATURALIZE (and often for each morphemeCategory:English links with manual fragments#NATURALIZE) of the imported word (e.g., native inflectionsCategory:English links with manual fragments#NATURALIZE).

   Synonym: paronymize

   Hyponym: anglicise

   In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized.

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   English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".

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   English orthography often (but not invariably) drops the diacritics from words that it has naturalized from other languages.

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7. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#NATURALIZE, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#NATURALIZE) To study nature.
   • 1854, Somerton, The heiress of Somerton, page 226:

     Well, any way, Doctor, we will make an appointment for a whole day here next spring ; we will botanize, herbarize and naturalize to our hearts' content, from morn till night."

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Verb

naturalizeCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#NATURALIZECategory:Portuguese verb forms#NATURALIZECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#NATURALIZECategory:Pages with entries#NATURALIZECategory:Pages with 2 entries#NATURALIZE

1. inflection of naturalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative