outworlder

See also: out-worlder

English

Etymology

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.
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