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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foreigner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
▪ After they failed to find their intended victim, they embarked on an indiscriminate anti-foreigner rampage.
▪ They were anti-foreigner, anti-regulation and anti-union.
other
▪ No other foreigners are training at the moment.
▪ With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading.
▪ People even from other Ridings were foreigners.
■ VERB
allow
▪ No other country in the world allows foreigners to buy its land like this.
▪ Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.
buy
▪ No other country in the world allows foreigners to buy its land like this.
▪ If exports are priced in pounds, they will now be cheaper in foreign currency terms for foreigners to buy.
sell
▪ Some countries, though, prohibit certain firms from selling shares to foreigners.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of foreigners work here illegally.
▪ About 40 million foreigners visited the US last year.
▪ Saleem felt that people were suspicious of him because he was a foreigner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After nearly 8,000 reported attacks on foreigners since the start of 1992, it was the first big, violent public reaction.
▪ Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.
▪ More than once I looked, too, to see the foreigner.
▪ She was a foreigner and already had more than enough to do inside her own organisation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foreigner

Foreigner \For"eign*er\, 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.

Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts.
--Denham.

Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foreigner

early 15c., foreyner; see foreign + -er (1).\n\nIn ordinary use chiefly applied to those who speak a foreign language as their native tongue; thus in England the term is not commonly understood to include Americans. [OED]\nIn American English from 1620s through mid-19c., however, it was used of a person from a different colony or state. Earlier as a noun in English was simple foreign (early 14c.), probably from Old French, which used the adjective as a noun meaning "foreigner;" also "outskirts; the outside world; latrine, privy." Spelling furriner, representing pronunciation, is from 1832, originally in Irish dialect pieces but by 1840s picked up by American dialect writers (Thomas Chandler Haliburton).

Wiktionary
foreigner

n. 1 A person from a foreign country. 2 A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.

WordNet
foreigner
  1. n. 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]

Wikipedia
Foreigner

Foreigner may refer to:

  • Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a citizen or permanent resident of that country. It does generally not include a stateless individual.
Foreigner (band)

Foreigner is a British-American hard rock band, originally formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musician Mick Jones and fellow Briton and ex- King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm.

Jones came up with the band's name as he, McDonald and Dennis Elliott were British, while Gramm, Al Greenwood and Ed Gagliardi were American. Their biggest hit single, " I Want to Know What Love Is", topped the United Kingdom and United States Charts among others. They are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records, including 37.5 million albums in the US alone.

Foreigner (Cat Stevens album)

Foreigner is the seventh studio album released by English singer-songwriter, Cat Stevens in July 1973. In addition to the minor hit "The Hurt", which received a moderate amount of airplay, Foreigner also included such songs as "100 I Dream" and the 18-minute-long "Foreigner Suite", which took up the entirety of side one.

Foreigner (Sawyer novel)

Foreigner is a science fiction novel by the Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer, originally published in 1994 by Ace Books. It is the final book of the Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy, following Far-Seer and Fossil Hunter. The book depicts an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs called Quintaglios, among various other creatures from the late Cretaceous period, imported to this moon by aliens 65 million years earlier.

Foreigner (Foreigner album)

Foreigner is the self-titled debut studio album by British-American rock band Foreigner, released in 1977. It spun off a barrage of hit singles, including " Feels Like the First Time", " Cold as Ice" and " Long, Long Way from Home". It also features album tracks such as "Headknocker" and "Starrider", the latter of which features a rare lead vocal from lead guitarist and co-founder Mick Jones. The first attempt at mixing the album was done at Sarm Studios, London, but dissatisfied with result the album was re-mixed at Atlantic Recording Studios by Mick Jones and Jimmy Douglass.

Foreigner (comics)

The Foreigner is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by writer Peter David, and first appeared in Web of Spider-Man #15 (June 1986)

The Foreigner is a mercenary and assassin. Although he has no superhuman abilities, he has trained his body to be in absolute peak physical condition, is among the greatest martial arts practitioners in the Marvel Universe, and as a professional assassin, who has evaded detection by various international law enforcement agencies, is highly intelligent. He is often depicted as being exceedingly competent.

The Foreigner was formerly married to Silver Sable.

Usage examples of "foreigner".

Jefferson and others imagined a tempestuous John Adams expelling foreigners by the shipload.

Mahommed Babar actually said, and swore to it in the name of the Most High, that in Delhi and such-like ancient places even in Ahmedabad and Lucknow--Moslems and Hindus had fraternized and sunk old grievances in the hope of combining to clear India of foreigners from end to end.

Every so often minors would spread around that Auca footprints had been found near the house, or that the grass was pressed down, indicating that Aucas had been lying there, spying on the foreigners.

Scandinavian wares attracted foreigners from many lands: Frisians, Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Balts, Greeks, and Orientals.

Japanese businessperson who meets with a foreigner is a spy for his country.

Fortunately there was no one about just then, and the three travellers were out of sight before the cartman and his wife had an opportunity of telling any one about the foreigners whom they had seen disguised as Chinamen.

There was this black man in San Diego, a foreigner, South American, drove a taxicab: I stayed in his house a while, town called Chula Vista, he rented a room to me.

Jews, or foreigners, or Frenchmen known to be unsympathetic to the Communard cause, or if they were owed money by anyone in the mob.

The clubs in the Corso were crowded with princes, nobles, diplomats, and distinguished foreigners.

American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States.

Among the numerous spectators were many persons of fashion, ladies in handsome dresses, and a good sprinkling of foreigners.

Spirit of Rumour enters on the scene in the disguise of a young foreigner.

As this government expects redress from other powers when similar injuries are inflicted by persons in their service upon citizens of the United States, we must be prepared to do justice to foreigners.

Eventually a host of newly landed merchants were ferried in, along with other foreigners in multi coloured hues, looking bemused.

As for me, as a freedwoman and a resident foreigner I am protected by our laws.