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Definition of Foreigner

1. Noun. A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country.

2. Noun. Someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group.

Definition of Foreigner

1. n. A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.

Definition of Foreigner

1. Noun. A person from a foreign country. ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foreigner

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreigner

foreign legion foreign medical graduates foreign minister foreign ministers foreign mission foreign office foreign policies foreign policy foreign professional personnel foreign protein

foreign protein therapy foreign serum foreign terrorist organization foreign tongue foreign tongues foreigner (current term) foreigners foreignise foreignism foreignisms

foreignize foreignized foreignizes foreignizing foreignness foreignnesses foreigns forein forejudge forejudged

Literary usage of Foreigner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"Such fugitive foreigner enjoys the hospitality of the State which grants him asylum ... And if a State grants asylum to a prosecuted foreigner, this duty ..."

2. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"(114) Since the foreigner still continues to be a citizen of his \ no. ... cannot, without injustice, be taken from a foreigner. Theer'^ foreigner ..."

3. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1903)
"TAXING THE foreigner. IF there is anything calculated to inspire suspicion and distrust with regard to a proposed political change, it is to hear it ..."

4. The Monthly Review (1841)
"Any foreigner, who undertakes the working of mines in France, does not embark in a mere ... Any foreigner may become a shareholder in the Bank of France, ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"The law of Maryland merely preserves and legalizes inheritable blood between a citizen and a foreigner, and enables the child or heir, not naturalized, ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1834)
"By a foreigner of Rank. London. 1834. 6. Oxford in 1834 : a Satire, in Six Parts. London. F all our national institutions, perhaps our great public schools ..."

7. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1882)
"A further reason for the aversion to Philip, and one that cannot be too often repeated, was that he was a foreigner. Charles was a native Fleming; ..."

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