foreigner Definition
for·eigner (fôr′in ər, fär′-)
noun
- a person from another country, thought of as an outsider; alien
- any person regarded as an outsider or stranger
foreigner Synonyms
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.
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