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OUTLANDER

Dictionary entry overview: What does outlander mean?

• OUTLANDER (noun)
The noun OUTLANDER has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: OUTLANDER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OUTLANDER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

alien; foreigner; noncitizen; outlander

Hypernyms ("outlander" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outlander"):

au pair (a young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light housework)

deportee; exile (expelled from home or country by authority)

gringo (a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen))

import; importee (an imported person brought from a foreign country)

metic (an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city)

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