foreigner

1. 1.

   a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

   Synonymsaliennoncitizenoutlander

   Broadertraveler

   Narrowerau pairexilegringoimportmetic
2. 2.

   someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group

   Synonymsoutsider

   Broaderstranger

   Narrowertransalpine

Other forms of foreigner

plural

foreigners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foreigner

What does foreigner mean?

foreigner means "a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foreigner?

foreigner has 3 syllables: fo-reig-ner. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹənɚ/.

What is another word for foreigner?

Close synonyms include alien, noncitizen, outlander, outsider. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foreigner a common word?

foreigner is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.