From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Naturalization \Nat'u*ral*i*za"tion\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the quality of being brought into conformity with nature [syn: {naturalisation}]
2: the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship [syn: {naturalisation}]
3: the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous [syn: {naturalisation}]
4: changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English of many Italian words" [syn: {naturalisation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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