US /ˈɪnˌkʌmɚ/ UK /ˈɪnˌkʌmə/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a person who comes to live in or enter a place from elsewhere

    The villagers were wary of the incomer who bought the old mill.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a person who comes to live... newcomerimmigrantsettlerarrivaloutsidermigrant
Opposites
nativelocaloutgoer
Word family
Related forms incomingincomecome

Etymology

A native English formation from the verb income (in the older sense 'to come in') plus the agent suffix -er; in- ('in') + come, from Old English cuman ('to come').

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