foreigner

[US]/'fɒrɪnə/
[UK]/'fɔrənɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.person from another country

Example Sentences

Her contempt for foreigners was obvious.

It is the custom of foreigners to do so.

The foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly.

She married a foreigner for mere lucre.

foreigners were admissible only as temporary workers.

a proposal that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections.

Some foreigners assimilate easily into our way of life.

Foreigners always associate China with the Great Wall.

Being a foreigner, he did not catch on the joke.

Foreigners take some time to adjust to our way of life.

cocket-a foreigner to write the proxy process, wrote a very full.

In fact, many venders will not higgle with foreigners now.

I don't hold with foreigners, leastways not here in King's Magnum Parva.

Foreigners who naturalise as Singaporean citizens are required to renounce all foreign citizenships.

The young characters found surfable waves and a culture curious about foreigners and the sport of surfing.

Japan offers a temptingly quick cheap break, but—for foreigners—little or no enforceable contact with the kids thereafter, notes Jeremy Morley, a New York-based “international divorce strategist”.

Real-world Examples

Yes, but it's safe. The government keeps out foreigners with import controls.

Source: CET-6 Listening Past Exam Questions (with Translations)

You rarely see these many foreigners in one place.

Source: CNN 10 Student English February 2018 Collection

Saudi Arabia is also understood to have evacuated numerous foreigners.

Source: BBC Listening Compilation April 2023

Many foreigners have trouble getting accustomed to it.

Source: Yilin Edition Oxford High School English (Elective 6)

The committee decided to exclude all foreigners from joining the club.

Source: Liu Yi's breakthrough of 5000 English vocabulary words.

Yes, it will. You may see the foreigners off at the airport.

Source: Comprehensive Guide to Financial English Speaking

The Grand Prix races are expected to bring more foreigners into Vietnam.

Source: VOA Special January 2020 Collection

I moved to Shanghai, where there are about half a million foreigners.

Source: Oxford University: IELTS Foreign Teacher Course

And the bodies of foreigners were found.

Source: AP Listening Compilation June 2015

They were the only foreigners in the town.

Source: New Standard High School English Compulsory Volume 4 by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

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