Thesaurus:foreigner
English
Noun
Sense: a person from a foreign country
Synonyms
- alien
- barbarian (derogatory)
- firangi (Indian subcontinent, UK)
- foreign [⇒ thesaurus]
- foreigner
- fremd
- fremdling
- furriner (dialectal, chiefly derogatory)
- gaijin (Japan, chiefly derogatory)
- metœcus (rare)
- nonlocal
- noninhabitant
- nonnational
- nonresident, non-resident
- outcomeling
- outener (chiefly dialectal)
- outlander
- outsider
- Paradesi (India)
- peregrine (dated)
- strangeling
- stranger
- uitlander (South Africa)
Archetypes
- Johnny Foreigner (UK, informal, derogatory)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- maverick [⇒ thesaurus]
- outcast [⇒ thesaurus]
- strange person [⇒ thesaurus]
See also
- Thesaurus:foreign
- Appendix:English terms for outsiders
Further reading
- “57. extraneousness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “foreigner” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.