foreigner

Word family

for·eign·er /ˈfɒrənə $ ˈfɔːrənər, ˈfɑː-/ W3 noun [countableC]

FOREIGNsomeone who comes from a different country 外国人

Some of the local people are suspicious of foreigners.

有些当地人不信任外国人。

The word foreigner can sound negative and not very friendly. In everyday English, people often say people from other countries: foreigner一词有时听上去带贬义，不是很友好。在日常英语中，人们常说people from other countries

I like meeting people from other countries.

我喜欢结识外国人。

Examples from the Corpus

foreigner• Saleem felt that people were suspicious of him because he was a foreigner.• She was a foreigner and already had more than enough to do inside her own organisation.• Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.• About 40 million foreigners visited the US last year.• A lot of foreigners work here illegally.• After nearly 8,000 reported attacks on foreigners since the start of 1992, it was the first big, violent public reaction.• More than once I looked, too, to see the foreigner.

for·eign·er noun →REGISTER1

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 4934 COCA: 4887

foreigner

Foreign and foreignness: foreign, overseas, alien...

Community and the feeling of belonging to a community: absorb, absorption, accept...

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