[syn: naturalization, naturalisation]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Naturalization \Nat`u*ral*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
naturalisation.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
naturalization
n 1: the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
[syn: naturalization, naturalisation]
2: the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
[syn: naturalization, naturalisation]
3: the introduction of animals or plants to places where they
flourish but are not indigenous [syn: naturalization,
naturalisation]
4: changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with
the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English of
many Italian words" [syn: naturalization, naturalisation]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalization":
Americanization, about-face, acclimation, acclimatization,
accommodation, acculturation, accustoming, adaption, adjustment,
admission, adoption, affiliation, alchemy, assimilation,
assumption, becoming, breaking, breaking-in, case hardening,
change, change-over, citizenship by naturalization,
citizenship papers, conditioning, conversion, culture shock,
domestication, familiarization, flip-flop, growth, habituation,
hardening, housebreaking, inurement, lapse, nationalization,
naturalized citizenship, orientation, papers, passage, progress,
re-formation, reconversion, reduction, resolution, reversal,
seasoning, shift, switch, switch-over, taming, training,
transformation, transit, transition, turning into, volte-face