Antonyms for foreigner
ˈfɔr ə nər, ˈfɒr-for·eign·er

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. foreignernoun

   Synonyms:
   alienNoun, strangerNoun

2. foreignernoun

   A person from a foreign country.

   Synonyms:
   alienNoun, strangerNoun

3. foreignernoun

   A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.

   Synonyms:
   alienNoun, strangerNoun

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. foreignernoun

   A naturalized citizen is not an alien, though a foreigner by birth, and perhaps a stranger in the place where he resides. A person of foreign birth not naturalized is an alien, though he may have been resident in the country a large part of a lifetime, and ceased to be a stranger to its people or institutions. He is an alien in one country if his allegiance is to another. The people of any country still residing in their own land are, strictly speaking, foreigners to the people of all other countries, rather than aliens; but alien and foreigner are often used synonymously.

   Antonyms:
   citizen, countryman, fellow-countryman, native, native-born inhabitant, naturalized person

   Synonyms:
   alien, alien, stranger

   Preposition:
   Aliens to (more rarely from) our nation and laws; aliens in our land, among our people.

Matched Categories

1. • Stranger
   • Traveler

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlandernoun

   a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

   Synonyms:
   unknown, extraterrestrial, stranger, alien, outsider, noncitizen, outlander, extraterrestrial being

2. foreigner, outsidernoun

   someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group

   Synonyms:
   noncitizen, outsider, outlander, alien

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. foreignernoun

   Antonyms:
   native, indigene, citizen

   Synonyms:
   alien, emigrant, immigrant

How to use foreigner in a sentence?

1. Fernando Benitez:

   We believe authorities are using the deportation -- which is an executive prerogative here in Mexico, whereby the executive branch can deport any foreigner without cause and without a trial whenever they see fit -- and they're using that in lieu of an extradition, to the extent of our knowledge, he has committed no crime at all in Mexico.

2. Mary McCarthy:

   The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

3. Pastor Paul Pakianathan:

   The downtrodden, lower income group... they see a foreigner and see them as a godfather, maybe he found that an easier way to get them.

4. Vasilii Semenovich Pankratov:

   Alexandra Fedorovna pronounced Russian words with a heavy accent, and it was noticebale that speaking Russian was hard for her ...[she] pronounced each phrase with difficulty, and with a German accent — just like a foreigner who had learned the Russian language from books, and not from practice.

5. Fredy Landa:

   Why should we have to wait for a foreigner to do it when we Cubans can show the truly beautiful Cuba that we have, these are times to challenge ourselves and to try new things and that's what we are doing.

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