foreigner
Pluralforeigners
- 1A person who comes from a different country than your own.
Like a guest from far away who does not come from your hometown.
The new student is a foreigner who just moved here from Brazil.
Many foreigners visit the city each summer to see the old castle.
Similaroutsider, alien, stranger, visitor, expatriate
Oppositenative, local, citizen
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- 2A private job a worker does on the side at a factory, without going through the company.
Like baking a cake for a friend in your work kitchen without telling your boss.
He earned extra cash doing a foreigner for his neighbor after his shift.
The boss caught two of the men running foreigners on company time.
Similarhomer
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Origin
From Middle English forner, from an earlier word forein meaning 'foreigner', which came from the adjective 'foreign'.