outlander
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outlander
Where it comes from
From outland + -er. In certain uses, influenced by or a calque of the Dutch uitlander or Afrikaans uitlander. Also cognate with German Ausländer, Swedish utlänning and Danish udlænding. Doublet of uitlander.
noun outlanders
- A foreigner or alien. It will be observed that it does not say "inlanders" or "excluding outlanders"; it simply says "by Germans," an expression which covers both inlanders and outlanders "for passages in foreign ships."
- A stranger or outsider.
Similar: outcomeling, outener, peregrine, strangeling
