foreignernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɒr.ə.nər/us/ˈfɔːr.ə.nɚ/B1 a person who comes from another country
Examples
- It will soon be impossible for foreigners to enter the country.
- I can't speak a word of French so everyone can tell I'm a foreigner as soon as I arrive in France.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Racial issues
- alien
- anti-Semitic
- anti-Semitism
- color bar
- color line
- communal
- ethnic cleansing
- ethnic minority
- foreign
- ghetto
- institutionalized racism
- nativism
- NF
- non-racist
- Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Arabism
- racist
- Uncle Tom
- white flight
- white supremacy
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Examples from literature
- The law said that foreigners could buy land in Hawaii.
- As you know by experience how difficult it is for foreigners to be married in Paris, I need not tell you of the trouble we are having to get all of my certificates from California.
- Besides the clergy, many other foreigners also settled in Poland, as mechanics and traders, especially Germans.
- It was like discovering that nine-tenths of the people of England were foreigners.
- Peter began to have a very low opinion of foreigners.
- The other was also plainly a foreigner.