outlander
Americannoun
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a foreigner; alien.
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an outsider; stranger.
noun
Etymology
Origin of outlander
Example Sentences
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Kingsolver said she knew firsthand Demon’s emotional landscape, particularly the humiliations of being a teenage outlander and the cruelty of your peers.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
Claire is an outlander in more than one sense: an Englishwoman in a suspicious Scots clan, and a spirited woman in a patriarchal society.
From Time • Aug. 7, 2014
I had been doing this forever, but I was still an outsider, still an outlander.
From Slate • Jul. 11, 2012
Ride, acceleration and handling: The outlander is good in all three categories when used as designed.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2010
Years in Scotland and the United States had left their stamp on me, and my family and old friends chaffed me about being an "outlander," telling me that now I was an American.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by O'Neil, Owen Rowe
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