foreigner
A person from a foreign country.
Noun
- A person from a foreign country.
- By the existing law of Great Britain all foreigners have the unrestricted right of entrance and residence in this country; and while they remain in it are, equally with British subjects, under the protection of the law;...
- For a student of American history and a foreigner like myself, it is easier to understand all these extremisms of conscience. - 1971 October 6, Alberto R. Oliva, “The American Sense of Guilt”, in The New York Times,...
- Though foreigners did play some part in fighting as mercenaries for Gadhafi during the bloody Libyan war, the IOM and local leaders in Chad say the vast majority of Chadians, like Mohammed, were working to send...
- A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.
Origin
From Middle English forner, foreyner, foroner, forenere, augmentation of earlier forein (“foreigner”), from the adjective. Equivalent to foreign + -er. Use of the -er suffix may be due to analogy with Middle English straunger (“stranger”). Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ.
Forms
Synonyms
alien metœcus outlander outsider stranger barbarian firangi foreign foreigner fremd fremdling furriner gaijin nonlocal noninhabitant nonnational nonresident non-resident outcomeling outener Paradesi peregrine strangeling uitlander
Antonyms
aborigine autochthon citizen compatriot countryman countrywoman native nonforeigner