# foreigner

Pronunciation: US say "FOR-i-nur" /ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/; UK say "FOR-i-nuh" /ˈfɒɹ.ɪ.nə(ɹ)/

## Noun

1. A person who belongs to or comes from a country other than one's own.
   - Simple: A person who comes from a different country than your own.
   - _As a foreigner, she found the local customs both fascinating and a little confusing._
   - _The festival drew thousands of foreigners eager to experience the regional tradition._
2. A private job carried out by an employee using a trade factory's facilities, rather than through the official business.
   - Simple: A private job a worker does on the side at a factory, without going through the company.
   - _The machinist took on a foreigner over the weekend, welding a gate for a friend._
   - _Several of the men supplemented their wages with foreigners done quietly after hours._

## Origin

From Middle English forner (also foreyner, forenere), an expanded form of the earlier forein ('foreigner'), taken from the adjective and equivalent to 'foreign' plus '-er'. The '-er' ending may be by analogy with Middle English straunger ('stranger'), and the word displaced the native Old English elþēodiġ.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/foreigner (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).