Wiktionary
alt. (context science fiction fantasy English) One who is not from the local planet/world/plane/dimension/universe. n. (context science fiction fantasy English) One who is not from the local planet/world/plane/dimension/universe.
Usage examples of "off-worlder".
Public executions for religious transgressions were too important a form of education to allow off-worlders, no matter who they were, to put an end to them.
The omnipotent, omniscient Masters, speaking from their immense and encyclopedic knowledge of all forms of music and their total understanding of the universe and Man's subliminal relationship with the Natural World, do not believe that this facet of Optherian life needs to be celebrated at any point in the year, certainly not during the Summer Festival when off-worlders might possibly hear something evoking a valid Optherian subculture and more original than variations on the usual pre-predigested pap that 'accredited' composers churn out.
Nearly 15 years in the Immigration Service had shown me a few things you wouldn't want to know about, and taught me a few lessons no one should have to learn the hard way, but it had also been a good way to learn about the off-worlders.
They were the nomads of the inner lands and the off-worlders would have to transverse those in order to reach their own goal.
That's why I was hunting for a place that served food from--and therefore, hopefully, stomachable by--off-world and off-worlders.
That’s why I was hunting for a place that served food from—and therefore, hopefully, stomachable by—off-world and off-worlders.
The Skrem paid no attention to the off-worlders, rather gathered in a group about I'On, producing bags in which they rummaged to bring forth what looked like handfuls of dried grass.
They might have hired off-worlders to produce the stuff locally, or may, just be serving as transfer agents.