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Foreign-born   /fˈɔrən-bɔrn/   Listen
Foreign-born

adjective
1.
Of persons born in another area or country than that lived in.  Synonym: nonnative.






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"Foreign-born" Quotes from Famous Books



... indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... national spirit. We have the right to demand the forbearance of critics until the United States has demonstrated whether she can make one people out of all the nations of the earth. London economists are alarmed at less than five hundred thousand foreign-born in a population of six million, and discuss earnestly the danger of too many aliens. But what is their problem in comparison with that of New York, which counts nearly one million five hundred thousand foreigners among its three and a half million ...
— Optimism - An Essay • Helen Keller



Words linked to "Foreign-born" :   foreign, strange



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