outworlder

See also: out-worlder

English

Etymology

From outworld +‎ -er.

Noun

outworlder (plural outworlders)

1. (science fiction, fantasy) One who comes from another planet, or from a society so culturally foreign as to be a different world.
   • 1967, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):

     It is a thing no outworlder may know except those very few who have been involved.

   • 1995, Among Friends And Enemies, Part 3: The Magical Mystery Tour (Gen13), volume 2, number 3 (comic), page 19:

     He speaks with the outworlder tongue!
     What else were you expecting from a male, sister Dykstra?

   • 1998, Celia S. Friedman, This Alien Shore:

     Let each government make sure that rich and poor alike, dirtborn and outworlder, Terran and Variant, all have equal access to the outernet and its resources.

Related terms

• outworld