foreigner
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for·eign·er
(fôr'ə-nər, fŏr'-) 
n.
n.
- One who is from a foreign country or place.
- One who is from outside a particular group or community; an outsider.
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foreigner
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Definition: person from another country
Antonyms: citizen, domestic, local, national, native
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foreigner
IN BRIEF: A person from another country.
Even though he had lived in England for two years, he still felt like a foreigner.
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang:
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foreigner
noun
noun, Brit, orig military
Something done or made at work by an employee for personal benefit; a piece of work not declared to the relevant authorities; esp. in phr. to do a foreigner. (1943 —) .
A. Bleasdale We're both gettin' followed, for all we know, we're both goin' t'get prosecuted f'doin' a foreigner while we're on the dole (1983).
noun, Brit, orig military
Something done or made at work by an employee for personal benefit; a piece of work not declared to the relevant authorities; esp. in phr. to do a foreigner. (1943 —) .
A. Bleasdale We're both gettin' followed, for all we know, we're both goin' t'get prosecuted f'doin' a foreigner while we're on the dole (1983).
| for it, foozling, footy | |
| form, forty, forty-rod whisky |
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Foreigner
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Look up foreigner in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Foreigner may refer to:
- Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a citizen of that country
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Music
- Foreigner (band), a British-American rock band
- Foreigner (Foreigner album), 1977
- Foreigner (Cat Stevens album), 1973
Literature
- Foreigner (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
- Foreigner, a novel in the Foreigner universe series by C. J. Cherryh
- Foreigner (Sawyer novel), a 1994 novel in the Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer
- The Foreigner (novel), a 2008 novel by Francie Lin
Film and theatre
- The Foreigner (film), a 2003 action film
- The Foreigner (play), a 1984 play by Larry Shue
- Foreigners, a play by Frederick Lonsdale
Journalism
- The Foreigner (newspaper), an online English-language newspaper in Norway
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Foreigner
Dansk (Danish)
n. - udlænding, fremmed
Nederlands (Dutch)
buitenlander, vreemdeling, buitenlands schip/dier/voorwerp
Français (French)
n. - étranger
Deutsch (German)
n. - Ausländer
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αλλοδαπός, ξένος
Português (Portuguese)
n. - forasteiro (m)
Русский (Russian)
иностранец, чужак
Español (Spanish)
n. - extranjero
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - utlänning, utländskt fartyg, utländsk produkt
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
外国人, 外地人
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 外國人, 外地人
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) أجنبي , غريب
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - זר, נוכרי
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