natural-born

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English

Adjective

natural-born (not comparable)

  1. Having an innate aptitude for something, from (or as if from) the time of one's birth.
    a natural-born computer programmer
  2. Having a status that arises from the conditions of one's birth, as opposed to one acquired through some legal procedure.
    • 1887, Edmund Burke, The Works of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume VIII, John C. Nimmo, page 76:
      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.

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