foreign-born

adjective

for·​eign-born ˌfȯr-ən-ˈbȯrn 

ˌfär-

: foreign by birth

Examples of foreign-born in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

More than a quarter of its residents are foreign-born, according to government figures. — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 13 June 2026

Images from those strikes show miners of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds – white and Black, American- and foreign-born – wearing red bandanas. — Catherine Simpson Bueker, The Conversation, 1 July 2026

Just 3% of players on NFL rosters last season were foreign-born, according to one analysis. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 15 May 2026

Complicating this issue is that many of Anthropic’s researchers are foreign-born, meaning they were barred from accessing their own product. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 13 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1692, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for foreign-born

• peppercorn
• unicorn
• waterborne
• winterbourne
• adorn
• airborne
• blackthorn
• broomcorn
• buckhorn
• buckthorn
• careworn
• firstborn