🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

cidadão estrangeiro

Pronunciation / Transliteration: si.daˈdãw ẽʃ.tɾaˈʒej.ɾu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Foreign-national/ˈfɔːr.ɪn ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O cidadão estrangeiro apresentou seu passaporte."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who is a citizen of one country but is living in, working in, or visiting another country.

    "Several foreign-nationals were evacuated from the region during the crisis."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or denoting citizens of other countries.

    "The embassy provides consular services to all foreign-national residents."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'foreign' (derived from Latin forinsecus, meaning 'on the outside') and 'national' (from Latin natio, meaning 'birth' or 'tribe'). Emerging in modern administrative and legal contexts during the 20th century, it became a standard designation in international law and immigration to denote a person residing in or visiting a country of which they do not hold citizenship.

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