Overseas vs Belonger - What's the difference?
overseas | belonger |
Abroad.
Living (being resident) in a foreign country.
Across a sea.
Abroad.
Across a sea.
One who belongs; a member.
* 1997 , John K. Hale, Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style (page 156)
(UK) One who has close ties to a specific overseas territory, normally by ancestry, and is therefore granted certain rights.
* 1999 , Yash P. Ghai, Hong Kong's new constitutional order (page 158)
As an adjective overseas
is abroad.As an adverb overseas
is abroad.As a noun belonger is
one who belongs; a member.overseas
English
Alternative forms
* (British) overseaAdjective
(-)- Overseas branches of the company are doing well.
- Overseas Chinese communities exist in North and South America.
- Her overseas trip went well.
Adverb
(-)- He emigrated and now lives overseas .
belonger
English
Noun
(en noun)- While both are poets of exile, Dante is more of a belonger and less of a loner.
- All British subjects (i.e., any Commonwealth citizens) born in Hong Kong were belongers .