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foreigner Definition

for·eigner (fôrin ər, fär-)

noun

  1. a person from another country, thought of as an outsider; alien
  2. any person regarded as an outsider or stranger

foreigner Synonyms

foreigner

n.

stranger, immigrant, newcomer, nonnative; see alien. See syn. study at alien.

foreigner Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • deport: Home secretary automatically to consider deporting any foreigner involved in listed extremist bookshops, centers, organizations and websites What?
  • detain: In the Philippines, the immigration act has been used to detain indefinitely foreigners suspected of terrorist acts.
  • marry: To marry a foreigner, permission must be obtained from the Home Office.
  • blame: The harsh fact is that both MPs find it easier to blame foreigners than motivate at home.
  • arrest: Under the Vienna Convention, all signatory states must allow foreigners arrested on their soil to contact their consulate.
  • kill: There are signs up in the streets of Gardez asking people to kill all foreigners.

Converse of subject

  • frequent: You should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks which could be against civilian targets, including places frequented by foreigners.
  • own: Not surprisingly, the percentage of gilts owned by foreigners has been steadily rising.
  • rule: Among the laws of Moses were laws which forbade the Jews from being ruled by foreigners.

Adjective modifier

  • bloody: Well, the great British tradition of shouting, sighing and pointing hasn't muttered its last " bloody foreigners " yet.
  • wealthy: Rausing legally makes use of a loophole by which wealthy foreigners living in Britain avoid paying tax.
  • strange: Thousands of these strange foreigners walking about the eternal city dressed in what appeared to be some kind of uniform.
  • rich: All they saw was a rich foreigner who might have some food for them.
  • many: Lets face it; many foreigners speak better English than the English.
  • most: Most pictures will be from Seoul or Pyongyang, since most foreigners tended to live there.

Noun used with modifier

johnny: Also just bought a digital camera in advance of a holiday to johnny foreigner land so something like Flickr seems useful.

Preposition: in

  • land: So what makes someone pack-up everything and dare to work abroad, the foreigner in an alien land?
  • country: The procedures for registering foreigners in the country were also made more stringent.

Preposition: from

country: He said plans to evacuate foreigners from the country were " very worrying " .

Preposition: with

passport: The foreigners with valid passports were slowly released; only the German and Italian emigrants remained.