Dictionary Definition
foreigner
Noun
1 a person who comes from a foreign country;
someone who does not owe allegiance to your country [syn: alien, noncitizen, outlander] [ant: citizen]
2 someone who is excluded from or is not a member
of a group [syn: outsider]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- A person from a foreign country.
- A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.
Translations
person in a foreign land
- Chinese: 外国人 (wài guó rén)
- Czech: cizinec , cizinka
- Dutch: buitenlander , buitenlandse , vreemdeling , vreemdelinge
- Finnish: ulkomaalainen
- French: étranger , étrangère
- German: Ausländer , Ausländerin
- trreq Hebrew
- Italian: straniero , straniera
- Japanese: 外国人 (gaikokujin), 外人 (gaijin)
- Latvian: ārzemnieks , ārzemniece
- Norwegian: utlending
- Polish: cudzoziemiec
- Romanian: străin
- Slovak: cudzinec , cudzinka
- Spanish: extranjero , extranjera
- Swedish: utlänning
- Thai: (farang)
Extensive Definition
Foreigner may refer to:
- Alien (law), a person who is not a native or naturalized citizen of the land where they are found
- Foreigner (band), a popular hard rock band in the '70s and '80s
- Foreigner (album), the self-titled album by Foreigner
- Foreigner (novel), the first book in the "Foreigner universe" series of novels by C. J. Cherryh
- The Foreigner (comics), a Marvel Comics villain.
- The Foreigner (play), a play by Larry Shue
- Foreigner (Cat Stevens album), a 1973 music album
- The Foreigner (2003 film), a 2003 action film
- Foreigner, a science fiction novel written by Robert J. Sawyer and part of his Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy