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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from another country |
| Synonyms: | alien, fresh off the boat, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, newcomer, outlander, outsider, stranger |
| Antonyms: | citizen, local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | émigré |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigrant |
| Synonyms: | DP, displaced person, exile, expatriate, foreigner, migrant, refugee |
| Main Entry: | immigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from a foreign land |
| Synonyms: | adoptive citizen, alien, colonist, documented alien, foreigner, incomer, migrant, naturalized citizen, newcomer, outsider, pioneer, settler, undocumented alien |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | newcomer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has just arrived in area |
| Synonyms: | Johnny-come-lately, alien, arrival, beginner, blow-in, colt, foreigner, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, late arrival, latecomer, maverick, neophyte, new kid on the block, novice, novitiate, outsider, rookie, settler, stranger, tenderfoot |
| Antonyms: | native, old hack |
| Main Entry: | outsider |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is foreign to something |
| Synonyms: | alien, floater, foreigner, incomer, interloper, intruder, newcomer, odd one out, outlander, refugee, stranger |
| Antonyms: | insider |
| Main Entry: | refugee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person running from something, often oppression |
| Synonyms: | DP, alien, boat person, castaway, defector, derelict, deserter, displaced person, emigrant, escapee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, expellee, foreigner, foundling, fugitive, homeless person, leper, maroon, outcast, outlaw, prodigal, renegade, runaway, stateless person, émigré |
| Main Entry: | stranger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is unfamiliar |
| Synonyms: | alien, drifter, foreign body, foreigner, guest, immigrant, incomer, interloper, intruder, itinerant person, migrant, migratory worker, new arrival, newcomer, out-of-stater, outcomer, outlander, outsider, party crasher, perfect stranger, squatter, transient, uninvited person, unknown, unknown person, visitor, wanderer |
| Antonyms: | acquaintance, friend, local, native |
| Main Entry: | visitor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person temporarily in a foreign location |
| Synonyms: | caller, company, foreigner, guest, habitué, inspector, invitee, out-of-towner, transient, visitant |
| Antonyms: | host |
| Main Entry: | deportee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | émigré |
| Synonyms: | DP, alien, displaced person, exile, expat, expatriate, expellee, foreigner, outlander, outsider, refugee |
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