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Meaning of natural-born | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. Having an innate aptitude for something, from (or as if from) the time of one's birth.
    not-comparable
  2. Having a status that arises from the conditions of one's birth, as opposed to one acquired through some legal procedure.
    not-comparable

Examples

“a natural-born computer programmer”
“During the time of the Mogul government, the princes of that race, who omitted nothing for the encouragement of commerce in their dominions, bestowed very large privileges and immunities on the English East India Company, exempting them from several duties to which their natural-born subjects were liable.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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