The Collaborative International Dictionary
foreign-born \foreign-born\ adj. born in another area or country than that lived in; -- of persons.
Syn: nonnative.
WordNet
adj. of persons born in another area or country than that lived in; "our large nonnative population" [syn: nonnative]
Usage examples of "foreign-born".
From allover the island people came to give honor to the new battle chieftain and to gaze with curiosity upon the foreign-born berserker who could wield the shapeshifting magic of their ancestors.
Spirit and Hope were foreign-born, technically, as they had come from the independent satellite of Callisto and had been naturalized as full Jupiter citizens when they left the Navy.
It is not merely a board of trustees or a body of legislators who must be converted to the justice of extending this right to women, but also the great masses of men, including the ignorant, the foreign-born, the small-minded and the vicious.
America is a big multicultural society full of densely packed cities with large foreign-born populations - and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.
During World War I, with German armies occupying Bucharest, the royal family besieged in the provincial capital of Jassy, and the local population blaming their foreign-born rulers for the fiasco, Carol deserted his military unit—.