foreign
IPA: fˈɔrʌn
noun
- 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.
adjective
- 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.
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Examples of "foreign" in Sentences
- Another foreigner murdered.
- I was lost in the foreign country.
- They imply that he is a foreigner.
- He was the lone foreigner in the group.
- There were many foreigners in the museum.
- The people emigrated into a foreign country.
- He took an adventure to the foreign countries.
- So it was somewhat indelicate to the foreigners.
- That is the source blazon in the foreign language.
- She represents the freedom, the foreign country, the forbidden.