Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person from a foreign country; a foreigner.
- n. A stranger.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A foreigner; a person who is not a native.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A foreigner.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
Examples
“I seem to recall outlander saying, either here or on TDP, somethng about Giffords' funding "drying up" -- Weiss can't even dream of having such a dry level of support.”
“Which means that, should Keyes run again, God forbid, while we may correctly criticize him as a fanatic, a loose cannon and a demagogue, we should give the whole "outlander" bit a rest.”
“These days the capital city boasted plenty of every kind of outlander imaginable.”
Water Sleeps
“* The Icelandic word for foreigner, * "útlendingur" *, translates literally to "outlander”
“Waltersdorf, 83, describes himself as the "outlander," having been born and raised in Washington, Pa.”
“Graham, although an outlander, knew his California, and, while every girl of the swimming suits was gowned for dinner, was not surprised to find no man similarly accoutered.”
“His theory is that they are from some small old-country or outlander ship, which, hove to on the opposite tack to the”
“A newly minted real estate man with modernist dreams of upper-class enclaves for even more freshly minted wealthy Brooklynites, an outlander in a peculiarly tight-knit community that could easily, and often did, trace its lineage to the first settlements, Alvord was precisely the type of carpetbagging speculator Bergen feared would set his sights on rural Kings County.”
“So we have the potential of an outlander becoming Master and that's very hard on the demense.”
“In any other season, the commonfolk might bite their tongues if an outlander came near.”
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