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OUTLANDER
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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
Sense 1
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 (a person who is 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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