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Naturalisation

Definitions: Naturalisation

Naturalisation

Noun

1. The quality of being brought into conformity with nature.

2. The proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "naturalisation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Synonym: Naturalisation

Synonym: naturalization (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: Immigration and Naturalisation Service (public administration, law).

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Crosswords: Naturalisation

Specialty definitions using "naturalisation": Know-Nothings. (references)
Etymologies containing "naturalisation": Naturalization. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Naturalisation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (naturalization), German (naturalization).

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Historic Usage: Naturalisation

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

France will be solely responsible for their diplomatic and consular protection from the date of their application for French naturalisation. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Naturalisation

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

His mania was the naturalisation of indigo in France.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Naturalisation

"Naturalisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Naturalisation" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2668,323

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Naturalisation

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

immigration and naturalisation

18

naturalisation

13

naturalisation uk

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Naturalisation

Language Translations for "naturalisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

å½'化 (naturalise, naturalised, Naturalization, Naturalize, Naturalized, Naturalizing). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πολιτογÏάφηση (naturalization). (various references)

   

Italian

  

naturalizzazione (investing aliens with all the privileges and obligations of the citizens, naturalization). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ê·€í™" (Naturalization). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aturalisationnay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Naturalisation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: antirational, instauration, salutatorian, transitional.

-3 letters: antinatural, nationalist, nutritional, rationalist, saturnalian, situational, translation.

-4 letters: insinuator, insulation, intranasal, lustration, natatorial, naturalist, nitrations, nutational, nutritions, ruinations, salutation, sanitarian, sanitation, saturation, saturnalia, sinoatrial, tarantulas, tarnations, transition, unitarians, urinations.

-5 letters: antiarins, antisolar, artisanal, astronaut, atonalist, insulator, intrusion, lunarians, lunations, natations, natatoria, nationals, nitration, nonartist, nutations, nutrition, rationals, ritualist, ruination, saltation, sanatoria, sanitaria, sanitoria, santolina, satiation, siltation, situation, stational, striation, tarantula, tarlatans, tarnation, tuitional, tutorials, unitarian, urination.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: naturalizations.

 

+2 letters: supranationalist, supranationality, ultranationalism, ultranationalist.

 

+3 letters: denaturalizations, supranationalists, ultranationalisms, ultranationalists.

 

+4 letters: supranationalities, ultranationalistic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Naturalisation


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 61 74 75 72 61 6C 69 73 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .-    -    ..-    .-.    .-    .-..    ..    ...    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#97 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0061 0074 0075 0072 0061 006C 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4867868784677875856786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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