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FOREIGN-BORN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does foreign-born mean?
• FOREIGN-BORN (adjective)
The adjective FOREIGN-BORN has 1 sense:
1. of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
Familiarity information: FOREIGN-BORN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
Synonyms:
foreign-born; nonnative
Context example:
our large nonnative population
Similar:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
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