Synonyms for foreigner
ˈfɔr ə nər, ˈfɒr-for·eign·er

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1. foreignernoun

   Synonyms:
   alienNoun, strangerNoun

2. foreignernoun

   A person from a foreign country.

   Synonyms:
   alienNoun, strangerNoun

3. foreignernoun

   A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.

   Synonyms:
   alienNoun, strangerNoun

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1. foreignernoun

   A naturalized citizen is not an alien, though a foreigner by birth, and perhaps a stranger in the place where he resides. A person of foreign birth not naturalized is an alien, though he may have been resident in the country a large part of a lifetime, and ceased to be a stranger to its people or institutions. He is an alien in one country if his allegiance is to another. The people of any country still residing in their own land are, strictly speaking, foreigners to the people of all other countries, rather than aliens; but alien and foreigner are often used synonymously.

   Synonyms:
   alien, alien, stranger

   Antonyms:
   citizen, countryman, fellow-countryman, native, native-born inhabitant, naturalized person

   Preposition:
   Aliens to (more rarely from) our nation and laws; aliens in our land, among our people.

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1. foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlandernoun

   a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

   Synonyms:
   unknown, extraterrestrial, stranger, alien, outsider, noncitizen, outlander, extraterrestrial being

2. foreigner, outsidernoun

   someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group

   Synonyms:
   noncitizen, outsider, outlander, alien

Matched Categories

1. • Stranger
   • Traveler

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1. foreignernoun

   Synonyms:
   alien, stranger

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1. foreignernoun

   Synonyms:
   alien, emigrant, immigrant

   Antonyms:
   native, indigene, citizen

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1. List of paraphrases for "foreigner":

   alien, foreign, stranger, foreigners, aliens, non-citizen, étranger, abroad, 'étranger

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1. Gertrude Stein:

   Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

2. Zaw Myint Maung:

   General Aung San is the father of the military. Aung San Suu Kyi is born from two Burmese citizens. It's sad that they said she is a foreigner.

3. Fernando Benitez:

   We believe authorities are using the deportation -- which is an executive prerogative here in Mexico, whereby the executive branch can deport any foreigner without cause and without a trial whenever they see fit -- and they're using that in lieu of an extradition, to the extent of our knowledge, he has committed no crime at all in Mexico.

4. Damodar Thakur:

   I never felt like a foreigner.

5. Humberto Leal:

   Clinton's statement captures her precarious diplomatic position, when an American is arrested overseas, and his rights have been violated in some way, the U.S. will have little diplomatic capital to negotiate with after executing a foreigner in blatant violation of international law.