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outlander

[ out-lan-der ]

noun

  1. a foreigner; alien.
  2. an outsider; stranger.


outlander

/ ˈaʊtˌlændə /

noun

  1. a foreigner or stranger
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of outlander1

First recorded in 1590–1600; outland + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Go, while my heart remains soft, it is not so often that the heart of a Zerv is soft toward any outlander.

And the word "dude" was commonly used rather to differentiate an outlander from a native than in an exactly scornful sense.

He knew from the foreign swagger of his clothes that the man was an outlander.

Out of its insularity it made occasional excursions to dinners and week-ends; even into marriage, now and then with an outlander.

There was not an outlander dog for two miles in either direction that Rex had not at one time or another met and vanquished.

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