allochthone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Inhabitants of a country with an ethnic background in another country, particularly people of Middle Eastern background living in Europe.
Example Sentences
- "In the northern Taconic Range of centralwestern Vermont an allochthone has been postulated."
- "The existence of an allochthone resting on an autochthone implies the existence of an overriding surface."
- "In addition, modern workers generally concur that, immediately surrounding the controversial Taconic allochthone, there is a nearly continuous belt of Middle-Ordovician gray to black argillite."
- "The idea was no sooner mooted, than we were reliably informed that we would have to play down considerably the Muslim component, sheltering behind a broader allochthone scout concept."
- "Immigration and differential fertility behaviour of immigrants may lead to a substantial demographic substitution of the authochthone by the allochthone population in specific urban areas or regions."
- "However, who is "allochthone" and who is "'autochthone" is a matter of absolutely unclear classification, and the term allochthone soon started to be used mainly for the Moroccans and the Turkish."