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foreigner

noun
/ˈfɒɹ.ɪ.nə(ɹ)/UK/ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/US/ˈfɑɹ.ɪ.nɚ/

Etymology

From Middle English forner, foreyner, foroner, forenere, augmentation of earlier forein (“foreigner”), from the adjective. Equivalent to foreign + -er. Use of the -er suffix may be due to analogy with Middle English straunger (“stranger”). Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ.

  1. inherited from forner

Definitions

  1. A person from a foreign country.

    • For a student of American history and a foreigner like myself, it is easier to understand all these extremisms of conscience.
    • Though foreigners did play some part in fighting as mercenaries for Gadhafi during the bloody Libyan war, the IOM and local leaders in Chad say the vast majority of Chadians, like Mohammed, were working to send remittances home.

  2. A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the…

    A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.

The neighborhood

Derived

antiforeigner, foreignership, nonforeigner

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at foreigner. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at foreigner. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at foreigner

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA