Synonyms for foreigner
Definitions
- n. 1
A person from a foreign country.
- n. 2
A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.
Forms
- Plural
- foreigners → strangers, outsiders, outlanders, barbarians…
Choose the right word
A naturalized citizen is not an alien, though a foreigner by birth, and perhaps a stranger in the place where he resides.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- stranger The girl that came yesterday was a stranger to me.
- outsider Growing up, I often felt like an outsider at home.
- barbarian My level 9 barbarian has been killed.
- alien The concept is quite alien to our way of thinking.
By length
- 5 letters
- alien3
- 8 letters
- stranger2, outsider3, emigrant3
- 9 letters
- immigrant3, barbarian4, outlander, uitlander
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (alien3 = 3 syllables).