Outsider - English meaning

adjective

Belonging to a foreign country.

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An alien culture

noun

A foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where he or she is living.

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An enemy alien

noun

A person who lives in a country but is not a citizen (= member of a country with specific rights)

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Alien customs

noun

An ambitious or ruthlessly self-seeking person.

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Full of arrivistes and the new rich for whom desperate consumption was a proof of being, its secret…

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A person who is trying to move into a higher class in society

noun

A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.

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She was a polish emigrant who came to scotland during the second world war

noun

A person who leaves a country permanently to live in another one

noun

Someone who leaves their country in order to live permanently in another country

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For a growing number of the world's emigrants, china - not the united states - is the land where op…

noun

A person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons.

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Soviet émigrés and defectors

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Someone who has had to leave their country permanently, usually for political reasons

noun

A person born in or coming from a country other than one's own.

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The bakery was popular with locals and foreigners alike

noun

A person who comes from another country

noun

Someone who goes to a party or other event when they have not been invited

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The party was ruined by a couple of rowdy gatecrashers., there were at least forty people at the pa…

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A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

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They found it difficult to expel illegal immigrants

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A person who has come into a foreign country in order to live there

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My grandparents arrived here as immigrants from russia in 1910., his family immigrated to the unite…

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A person who has come to a country that is not their own in order to live there permanently

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Legal/illegal/undocumented immigrant arizona employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants face s…

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A person who has come to live in an area in which they have not grown up, especially in a close-knit rural community.

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An english incomer to orkney

combining form

Denoting a person with a specified level of income.

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Middle-incomer

noun

A person who is independent and self-reliant.

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A rugged individualist driven to succeed

adjective

Relating to or characterized by the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant.

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Individualist attitudes

noun

A person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong.

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Japanese consumers have in the past been unreceptive to foreign interlopers in the cell phone market

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Someone who becomes involved in an activity or a social group without being asked or wanted, or who enters a place without being allowed

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We felt like interlopers when we tried to join the game.

noun

A person who intrudes, especially into a building with criminal intent.

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The intruder had pulled out drawers and dumped their contents on the floor

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Someone who enters a place without permission, esp. in order to commit a crime

noun

A person whose behaviour or attitude sets them apart from others in an uncomfortably conspicuous way.

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A motley collection of social misfits

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Someone who is not accepted socially by other people because his or her behavior is unusual or strange

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I was a social misfit, the kind of kid no one played with.

noun

A person who has recently arrived in a place.

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She's a newcomer to the area

prefix

Expressing negation or absence.

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Non-aggression

prefix

Used to add the meaning "not" to adjectives and nouns

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Nonexistent, nonflammable, nonpartisan

noun

A person or organization that has not officially joined a particular group

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The club's function room can be hired by non-members for €100.

idiom

A person or thing that is different from or kept apart from others that form a group or set

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Guess which number of the following sequence is the odd one out., she was always the odd one out at…

noun

A person who has been rejected or ostracized by their society or social group.

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She went from trusted pal to ostracized outcast overnight

adjective

(of a person) rejected or ostracized.

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They can be made to feel outcast and inadequate

noun

A person who is not accepted or has no place in society or in a particular group

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A social outcast

noun

A foreigner or a stranger.

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Here in the city i feel like a perpetual outlander

noun

A person who is not from your country or area

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I'm an outlander in this part of town.

noun

A person of humble origin who has gained wealth, influence, or celebrity.

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The political inexperience of a parvenu

noun

Someone from a low social position who has suddenly become rich or successful

noun

A person whom one does not know or with whom one is not familiar.

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Don't talk to strangers

adjective

Unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain.

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Children have some strange ideas

noun

Someone not known or not familiar

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After being away so long, my sister seemed like a stranger., sorry, i can’t direct you – i’m a stra…

noun

A person visiting someone or somewhere, especially socially or as a tourist.

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She's a frequent visitor to london

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Someone who visits a person or place

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You have some visitors to see you.