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- [in-kuhm-er]
- /ˈɪnˌkʌm ər/
- /ˈɪnkʌmə/
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- [in-kuhm-er]
- /ˈɪnˌkʌm ər/
Definitions of incomer word
- noun incomer a person who comes in. 1
- noun incomer Chiefly British. an immigrant. 1
- noun incomer an intruder. 1
- noun incomer a successor. 1
- noun incomer Hunting. a duck, pheasant, etc., that flies toward the shooter. 1
- noun incomer An outsider who moves to a community or a place, as used by those who consider themselves to be its original inhabitants. 1
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Origin of incomer
First appearance:
before 1520 One of the 28% oldest English words
First recorded in 1520-30; in + comer
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Parts of speech for Incomer
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
incomer popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 61% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.
incomer usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for incomer
noun incomer
- outsider — a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- visitor — a person who visits, as for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like.
- refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- foreigner — a person not native to or naturalized in the country or jurisdiction under consideration; alien.
Antonyms for incomer
noun incomer
- local — low-cal.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- citizen — Someone who is a citizen of a particular country is legally accepted as belonging to that country.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
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