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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foreign being |
| Synonyms: | blow in, floater, foreigner, greenhorn, guest, immigrant, incomer, interloper, intruder, invader, migrant, newcomer, noncitizen, outsider, refugee, settler, squatter, stranger, visitor, weed* |
| Antonyms: | citizen, countryman, national, native, settler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foreigner |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | new kid on the block |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | new person |
| Synonyms: | beginner, greenhorn, incomer, neophyte, new arrival, new kid in town, newcomer, nouveau arrive, novice, rookie, tenderfoot, tyro |
| Main Entry: | outlander |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foreigner |
| Synonyms: | alien, fresh off the boat, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, newcomer, outsider, stranger, émigré |
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| Main Entry: | alien |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
alien, alienigenate, allochthonous, exaliotriote, exceptional, excluded, extraneous, foreign, fremd, heterochthonous, inadmissible, tramontane, ulterior, ultramontane
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