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# foreigner

«foreigner» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person from another country** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a foreigner, foreigners)

### meaning for a pupil

A person from another country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and travel stories a foreigner is someone from a different country; in kind speech people often prefer «visitor» or «someone from abroad», because «foreigner» can sound unfriendly. Phrases: «a foreigner in a strange land», «treat foreigners kindly».

### examples

- The town welcomes foreigners every summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/#x1)
- When I went to France, I was the foreigner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/#x2)
- Many foreigners come to see the old castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/#x3)
- Some people feel like foreigners in a new country at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/#x4)
- The guide spoke English to the foreigners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/#x5)
- Be kind to newcomers and foreigners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/#x6)
- One evening the foreigner sat in the balcony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/#x7)

### note

Spelling trap: foreign has a silent g — f-o-r-e-i-g-n-e-r. The word can sound rude or unwelcoming; «visitor», «tourist», «newcomer» or «someone from another country» are softer.

### In the corpora

- [Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/4/)
- [They called it democracy, rule by the people, though women, slaves and foreigners could not vote.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/1/)
- [In Athens women, slaves and foreigners could not vote.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/8/)
- [Gleaning meant gathering grain left at the edges of a field; God's law let the poor and foreigners do it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/7/)
- [Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.434/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «foreigner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreigner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.