foreign

IPA: fˈɔrʌn

A foreign person
(now informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.
(obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.
(obsolete) A non-guildmember.
A foreign vehicle
(obsolete) A foreign ship.
(slang) A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
(obsolete) An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
A foreign area
(now dialect) An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
(obsolete, usually in the plural) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.

Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
Relating to a different nation.
Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
(with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.
(obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
(US, state law) From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
(obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.

Examples of "foreign" in Sentences

Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, British foreign secretary
One local dealing with visitors carries the title "foreign minister."
The London-based Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) - an independent think-tank whose president is British foreign secretary Robin Cook
Although I had been eating foreign food the previous night, I could have been eating Italian instead, and the word foreign would have applied as well.
As a result, I was generally able to get away with buying a half-hour or an hour of Internet access at a time in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, where "complimentary Internet" is a term foreign to hotels.
The English mind took naturally to rebellion, when foreign, and it felt particular confidence in the Southern Confederacy because of its combined attributes, foreign rebellion of English blood, which came nearer ideal eccentricity than could be reached by Poles, Hungarians, Italians or Frenchmen.