Foreigner
['fɒrɪnə] or ['fɔrənɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country.
(noun.) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group.
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Madge
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Alien, stranger.
Checker: Newman
Unserious Contents or Definition
One who is eligible to the police force. From Grk. fero, to carry off, and enara, spoils. One who carries off the spoils.
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Examples
- A lame foreigner with a stick. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Yo're a stranger and a foreigner, and aren't likely to know their ways; but I knowed it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Led by a woman with her brains between her thighs and a foreigner who comes to destroy you. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He looked like a foreigner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Once I thought the hints and jests rained upon a young fair-haired foreigner of the party, whom they called Heinrich Mühler. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In many of his opinions he was an Englishman of the old school, and he hated a foreigner simply and solely because he was a foreigner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He and the foreigner then went away and left her by herself in the room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You are a foreigner. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Lady Charles Somerset was very fond of this young foreigner, and almost considered him as her son. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Like a foreigner, as he was, he offered her first one cheek, then the other. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then there was a little quiz of a lord, or rather an earl, who had long been married to a high-bred foreigner. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But it is, in a way, presumptuous for a foreigner to teach Spanish, Fernando said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Alvanly brought me a tall, well-dressed foreigner, whom he was waiting to present to me as his friend. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There was a foreigner with us who made the explosion, Pablo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Whether the merchant whose capital exports the surplus produce of any society, be a native or a foreigner, is of very little importance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I ask them what news in Londra, of foreigners arrived. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Staid till midnight, but not permitted to land by these infamous foreigners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That is just like the extraordinary things that foreigners invent about us. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It may be that in foreigners, or in those who have not had our religion, there is not the same attitude. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Beaufort house was one that New Yorkers were proud to show to foreigners, especially on the night of the annual ball. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The English know how to travel comfortably, and they carry soap with them; other foreigners do not use the article. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Like China under the Mings, Japan had set her face resolutely against the interference of foreigners in her affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This, therefore, might be called a political position of the Bleeding Hearts; but they entertained other objections to having foreigners in the Yard. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Foreigners entered the country, and conflicts between them and Japanese gentlemen of spirit ensued. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I never before met with any lady of her rank and station who was so lamentably narrow-minded on the subject of foreigners. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Those other regulations secure them equally against that of foreigners. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Pray, sir, said the fat gentleman, speaking louder, may I be bold to ask which of they two foreigners might be the Russian Emperor? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Are they foreigners? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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