foreigner

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person from another country.

   As a foreigner, he found the local customs fascinating.

From Middle English forner, foreyner, foroner, forenere, augmentation of earlier forein (“foreigner”), from the adjective. Equivalent to foreign + -er. Use of the -er suffix may be due to analogy with Middle English straunger (“stranger”). Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ.

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