Meaning

2 senses

  1. A person from a foreign country.

    Ausländer, Ausländerin

    иностра́нецinostránec, иностра́нкаinostránka, чужезе́мецčužezémec

    інозе́мецьinozémecʹ, інозе́мкаinozémka, чужозе́мецьčužozémecʹ

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

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

Examples

338 sentences

  1. I'm used to talking to foreigners.

    Я звичний до розмов із іноземцями. — deniko

    ruЯ привык разговаривать с иностранцами. — odexed

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  2. Tom pretended to be a foreigner.

    Том удавав із себе іноземця. — deniko

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  3. Only foreigners are affected by this law.

    Цей закон стосується лише іноземців. — deniko

    deDieses Gesetz betrifft nur Ausländer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. How many foreigners do you have working here?

    Скільки у вас тут працює іноземців? — deniko

    deWie viele Ausländer arbeiten hier bei Ihnen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. Talking with foreigners is a lot of fun.

    Спілкуватися з іноземцями дуже весело. — Ahha

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person in a foreign land:
Русский
By meaning 1
person in a foreign land:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person in a foreign land:

Origin

From Middle English forner, foreyner, foroner, forenere, augmentation of earlier forein (“

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.

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Forms

plural: foreigners
Singularforeigner
Pluralforeigners

regular

Synonyms

22 synonyms
outsiderB2strangerA2foreignA1outlanderalienmetœcusfirangifremdfremdlingnonlocalnoninhabitantnonnationalnonresidentnon-resident
Close in meaning
  • a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country:aliennoncitizenoutlander
  • someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group:outsider

Antonyms

8 antonyms
nativeA2aborigineB1autochthoncitizenA2compatriotcountrymanB2countrywomannonforeigner

Word family

4 related words
RelatedforeignA1
Derivedantiforeignerforeignershipnonforeigner

Collocations

3 patterns
  • is a foreigner
  • by a foreigner
  • many foreigners

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
foregroundforeheadB1foreignA1foremanB2foremostforensicC1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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