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foreign-born

foreign-born

11 3.4
Born in another country than the one you live in
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɔrɪn bɔrn/
translation icon : nacido en el extranjero
  • Many foreign-born students have benefited from scholarship programs in the United States.
  • foreign-born faculty
  • foreign-born member
  • foreign-born population

All six were foreign born immigrants to the United States.

Examples

  • In fact, in some cases, their results show a significant positive effect for the foreign-born TAs.

    Academic text (2008)
  • You know, a lot of foreign-born people, when they came to America, they used the family name.

  • And so we need further support for foreign born women scientists.

  • All six were foreign born immigrants to the United States.

  • No one must hear the accents that would give them away as foreign born.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • As it is, 53% of Toronto is foreign-born now, according to the last census.

    Blog text (21)
  • In 1948, Schumpeter was elected president of the American Economic Association, the first foreign-born scholar to hold that office.

    Academic text (1991)
  • By 1910, one in three Americans had either immigrated here or had at least one foreign-born parent.

    Academic text (1992)
  • One of those women actually is foreign born, she's Ilhan Omar from Somalia.

  • The economy boomed, and by 1910 over 45 percent of Buenos Aires's 1,232,000 inhabitants were foreign-born.

    Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

foreign
vsforeign-born
2.0

About other countries and how a country deals with them

focuses on being born in another country rather than general country relation
nonnative
vsforeign-born
1 4.9

From another place, often brought there by people

means someone was born in a different country from where they live

How Native

native-born
9 3.7
foreign-born
11 3.4

Surface Forms

foreign-born positive

Morphology

foreign-born = foreign + born (transparent) = foreign + born

The compound 'foreign-born' directly combines 'foreign' and 'born' to indicate someone born in a foreign country, a meaning easily inferred by learners.

Etymology

Foreign-born is easy to remember: foreign comes from an old word meaning 'outside' and born means 'to be born', so it literally says someone was 'born outside' the country and is used for people born in a different country.