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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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: | layperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur person, not trained in religious or other profession |
| Synonyms: | believer, dilettante, follower, laic, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, parishioner, proselyte, recruit, secular |
| Antonyms: | minister, ordained, priest, professional, reverend |
| Main Entry: | loner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recluse |
| Synonyms: | anomic, hermit, introvert, lone wolf, outsider, solitary |
| Main Entry: | misfit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonconformist |
| Synonyms: | beatnik, bohemian*, different breed, dissenter, dissident, dropout, eccentric, fish out of water, freak*, individualist, lone wolf, loser, odd man out, oddball, offbeat, outsider, weirdo* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | pariah |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social outcast |
| Synonyms: | bum*, castaway, deportee, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, hobo*, leper, outsider, persona non grata, rascal, refugee, tramp, undesirable, vagabond, vagrant, waif |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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