foreigner

Meaning

1. A person from a foreign country.
2. A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.

Synonyms

stranger

alien

👽

outsider

outlander

immigrant

noncitizen

newcomer

barbarian

visitor

guest

gentile

hooknose

unknown

distant

gringo

foreign

nonnative

odd man out

out of place

outside

resettler

strange

strangers

tramontane

traveller

uninvolved

wanderer

westerner

another person

foreign country

new person

non-native

witness to truth of someone’s statement

different person

hairy barbarian

non-Āryan

Chinese

🇨🇳/🇲🇴

ineligible alien

aborigines

aquiline nose

colonist

detached

Englishman

exotic

external

extrinsic

foreigners

foreign national

greenhorn

intruder

Translations

étranger

Ausländer

extranjero

straniero

forestiero

estrangeiro

Fremder

αλλοδαπός

buitenlander

vreemdeling

ξένος

forastero

estranger

étrangère

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɒɹ.ɪ.nə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: forner

In summary

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.