Foreigner
noun
A person who is not a citizen of the country where they are living.
Despite living there for 10 years, he was still treated as a foreigner.
Often appears as...
- treated as a foreigner
- considered a foreigner
noun
A person who is not familiar or comfortable with a place or situation.
In the realm of advanced technology, he felt like a foreigner.
Often appears as...
- feel like a foreigner
- act like a foreigner
noun
In some contexts, a foreigner can also mean a thing or an idea that is not typical of a place or group.
In this small traditional village, newly built skyscrapers were considered as foreigners.
Often appears as...
- considered as a foreigner
- seen as a foreigner
noun
A person who is not a citizen of the country where they are living.
Despite living there for 10 years, he was still treated as a foreigner.
Often appears as...
- treated as a foreigner
- considered a foreigner
noun
A person who is not familiar or comfortable with a place or situation.
In the realm of advanced technology, he felt like a foreigner.
Often appears as...
- feel like a foreigner
- act like a foreigner
noun
In some contexts, a foreigner can also mean a thing or an idea that is not typical of a place or group.
In this small traditional village, newly built skyscrapers were considered as foreigners.
Often appears as...
- considered as a foreigner
- seen as a foreigner
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Status
Focus on the legal perspective of living in a foreign country without citizenship.
He needed a visa since he was a foreigner.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Perception
Highlights how locals perceive someone from another country in their midst.
The townspeople viewed anyone not born there as a foreigner.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Differences
Emphasizes different customs, traditions, or behaviors that set foreigners apart.
As a foreigner, she wasn't used to their festive rituals.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Status
Focus on the legal perspective of living in a foreign country without citizenship.
He needed a visa since he was a foreigner.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Perception
Highlights how locals perceive someone from another country in their midst.
The townspeople viewed anyone not born there as a foreigner.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Differences
Emphasizes different customs, traditions, or behaviors that set foreigners apart.
As a foreigner, she wasn't used to their festive rituals.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Status
Focus on the legal perspective of living in a foreign country without citizenship.
He needed a visa since he was a foreigner.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Perception
Highlights how locals perceive someone from another country in their midst.
The townspeople viewed anyone not born there as a foreigner.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Differences
Emphasizes different customs, traditions, or behaviors that set foreigners apart.
As a foreigner, she wasn't used to their festive rituals.
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Africa is open for...
children are going to go to school that's what trade and development can do when I started in this whole venture with the film I didn't think that Africans would really be interested in it I thought you know come on Africans can walk outside of their door and they'll see a new Africa why do they need some foreigner to come and tell them what is Africa the truth
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Hunting With Falcons:...
pretty good life I never even thought that I would make a living and traveling the world and consulting on different techniques with different falconers and I want to actually try to give back and share some of my experiences if I can help other foreigners and non falconers I understand what falconry is doing you
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
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A Rare Look Into the...
and their country. And over time I got further and further away from the spectacles and away from the capital and out into places that really no other foreigners had ever been. And certainly very few photographers had ever seen. And maybe it was even more important to me,
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A life of purpose PIPE Rick...
support the oppressed, defend the defenseless, care for the sick, assist the poor, speak up for the foreigner, those in prison." Basically, he's talking about all the marginalized in society. And as I read that, I looked at it, and I thought, you know,
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
and what justness means to me is using laws for their intended purpose, which is to protect. The role of laws is to protect. So as a result, I decided to open up a private practice, and I became the first foreigner to litigate
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Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...
It is important, but what the ordinary women and men who engage in micro-production want is global access. They don't want to sell to the charity bazaars that are only for foreigners -- and the same bloody shirt
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Where did Russia come...
but left to their own devices, they turned on each other. Such chaos ensued that, ironically, the tribes reached out to the foreigners they had just expelled, inviting them to return and establish order.
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Jorge Ramos: Why...
As a reporter and as a foreigner, I've learned that neutrality, silence and fear aren't the best options -- not in journalism, nor in life. Neutrality
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Fighting Monkeys PIPE...
and different rules can apply friends fight for each other rivals and foreigners can be killed it isn't catch them our feelings for
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Africa is open for...
children are going to go to school that's what trade and development can do when I started in this whole venture with the film I didn't think that Africans would really be interested in it I thought you know come on Africans can walk outside of their door and they'll see a new Africa why do they need some foreigner to come and tell them what is Africa the truth
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Hunting With Falcons:...
pretty good life I never even thought that I would make a living and traveling the world and consulting on different techniques with different falconers and I want to actually try to give back and share some of my experiences if I can help other foreigners and non falconers I understand what falconry is doing you
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
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A Rare Look Into the...
and their country. And over time I got further and further away from the spectacles and away from the capital and out into places that really no other foreigners had ever been. And certainly very few photographers had ever seen. And maybe it was even more important to me,
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A life of purpose PIPE Rick...
support the oppressed, defend the defenseless, care for the sick, assist the poor, speak up for the foreigner, those in prison." Basically, he's talking about all the marginalized in society. And as I read that, I looked at it, and I thought, you know,
Video examples
Kimberley Motley: How I...
and what justness means to me is using laws for their intended purpose, which is to protect. The role of laws is to protect. So as a result, I decided to open up a private practice, and I became the first foreigner to litigate
Video examples
Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...
It is important, but what the ordinary women and men who engage in micro-production want is global access. They don't want to sell to the charity bazaars that are only for foreigners -- and the same bloody shirt
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Where did Russia come...
but left to their own devices, they turned on each other. Such chaos ensued that, ironically, the tribes reached out to the foreigners they had just expelled, inviting them to return and establish order.
Video examples
Jorge Ramos: Why...
As a reporter and as a foreigner, I've learned that neutrality, silence and fear aren't the best options -- not in journalism, nor in life. Neutrality
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Fighting Monkeys PIPE...
and different rules can apply friends fight for each other rivals and foreigners can be killed it isn't catch them our feelings for
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Tamlyn Tomita
Japanese Actress
In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And with those game pieces come other stories we're not familiar with. So, science fiction teaches us how to relate to outsiders, to foreigners, and to not approach any of that with fear, but a genuine curiosity.
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Jonathan Galassi
American Publisher
I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.
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G. Edward Griffin
American Author
As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
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Abigail Washburn
American Musician
I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
American Actress
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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Ivo Daalder
American Public Servant
Trump believes all foreigners are playing us for suckers - he sees the world as a dark place. How can you lead alliances when you keep telling your allies they are ripping you off?
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Roy Choi
South Korean Chef
I kind of feel for the vegetable world - the vegetarian world. It's almost as if people look at them like aliens or foreigners.
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Hallgrimur Helgason
Icelander Novelist
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
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Kalidou Koulibaly
French Athlete
Naples reminds me of Senegal, as when a foreigner arrives, everyone does their best to help him out.
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John Mahoney
English Actor
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
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Tamlyn Tomita
Japanese Actress
In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And with those game pieces come other stories we're not familiar with. So, science fiction teaches us how to relate to outsiders, to foreigners, and to not approach any of that with fear, but a genuine curiosity.
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Jonathan Galassi
American Publisher
I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.
Quote examples
G. Edward Griffin
American Author
As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
Quote examples
Abigail Washburn
American Musician
I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
American Actress
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Quote examples
Ivo Daalder
American Public Servant
Trump believes all foreigners are playing us for suckers - he sees the world as a dark place. How can you lead alliances when you keep telling your allies they are ripping you off?
Quote examples
Roy Choi
South Korean Chef
I kind of feel for the vegetable world - the vegetarian world. It's almost as if people look at them like aliens or foreigners.
Quote examples
Hallgrimur Helgason
Icelander Novelist
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
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Kalidou Koulibaly
French Athlete
Naples reminds me of Senegal, as when a foreigner arrives, everyone does their best to help him out.
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John Mahoney
English Actor
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
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