Crossword clues for outlander
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outlander \Out"land*er\, n.
A foreigner.
--Wood.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "foreigner," from outland (see outlandish) + -er (1). Probably on model of Dutch uitlander, German ausländer. In South African English it had a specific sense of "not of Boer birth" (1892) and was a loan-translation of S.African Dutch uitlander.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A foreigner or alien. 2 A stranger or outsider.
WordNet
n. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country [syn: foreigner, alien, noncitizen] [ant: citizen]
Wikipedia
Outlander may refer to:
Outlander (published in the United Kingdom as Cross Stitch) is the first in a series of eight historical multi-genre novels by Diana Gabaldon. Published in 1991, it focuses on World War II-era nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser. A mix of several genres, the Outlander series has elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and science fiction/ fantasy. Outlander won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best Romance of 1991. A television adaptation of the Outlander series premiered on Starz in the US on August 9, 2014.
Outlander is a 2008 American science fiction action film directed by Howard McCain and starring James Caviezel. The plot is loosely based on Beowulf, adapted to a science-fiction backstory involving a spaceship crashing in Iron Age Norway. The film was a box-office failure, grossing USD $7 million compared to a budget estimated at $47 million.
Outlander is an action driving video game with a post-apocalyptic theme. It was developed and published by Mindscape in 1992 for the Mega Drive/Genesis and in 1993 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The game shares many similarities to the Mad Max film series, originally it was developed as The Road Warrior based on the Mad Max sequel, however near completion Mindscape lost the rights to the license and the title was changed to Outlander to avoid legal issues.
Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Developed by Ronald D. Moore and produced by Sony Pictures Television and Left Bank Pictures for Starz, the show premiered on August 9, 2014. It stars Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall, a married World War II nurse in 1945 who finds herself transported back to Scotland in 1743, where she encounters the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser ( Sam Heughan) and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite risings. The second season, consisting of 13 episodes and based on Dragonfly in Amber, premiered on April 9, 2016. On June 1, 2016, Starz renewed the series for a third and fourth season, which will adapt the third and fourth Outlander novels, Voyager and Drums of Autumn.
Usage examples of "outlander".
Even Bardel could see the boy trembling in anticipation of punishment, saw too that the outlanders had taken a liking to the slender child.
Dirrach did not step outside his chamber until he spotted Bardel near the vineyards with the outlanders.
Dirrach to reassure himself that the fresh windfall of mana was genuine and resided, not in outlander sorcery, but in hydrophane opals.
President of Medon saw at once that which the three outlanders had in common.
And beneath its beauty something unfathomable, as though the field itself had become a living sign, a pictogram like those the outlanders used to freeze breath onto stone and parchment.
Twins were rare, and their birth to this strange outlander couple was considered an omen important enough to secure Sulla the thaneship of a whole group of small tribes.
Outlander, thou must coil it as it comes, to keep all neat and unclogged in the keg there.
Before that the monk had been an outlander, the undistorted but homeless offspring of distorts, a wanderer and a bandit.
Chartiphon, gratifyingly unresentful at seeing an outlander promoted over his head, was Field Marshal and Chief of Operations.
Jameson raiders supported the outlanders of the Transvaal, so also the soldiers and tribesmen of Afghanistan sympathised with and aided their countrymen and coreligionists across the border.
That healer, Glassman, is in charge of those boats, spreading the word about the outlanders.
His little eyes glowered piggishly up at the two outlanders from their wrinkled beds of layered fat.
It was only a hamlet, but it boasted the distinguished name of Turris Severi, after a local landmark, the stone tower erected by the Emperor Severus, more than two centuries before, to commemorate his victory over the outlander tribes called Quadi and Marcomanni.
By the look on his face he was balancing the annoyance to Prince Slyke Giaja of inflicting the outlander on him, versus the relief of being rid of Miles himself.
But he doubted many of the good people of Snakefish would be enthusiastic about following the gang of outlanders into the black heart of the chem storm.