born and bred
Definition
› describes someone who was born and grew up in a particular place, and has the typical character of someone who lives there: He's a Parisian born and bred.Innate and congenitalGenetics
(Definition of born and bred from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- birth noun
- born adjective
- congenital adjective
- descend from sth phrasal verb
- inborn adjective
- inbred adjective (ESTABLISHED)
- inclined adjective
- inherit verb (QUALITY)
- inheritance noun (QUALITY)
- innate adjective
- instinct noun
- instinctive adjective
- native adjective
- native noun
- natural adjective (NOT ARTIFICIAL)
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