Meaning of foreign | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A foreign person
   informal
2. A foreigner: a person from another country.
   informal
3. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own
4. An outsider: a person from another place or group.
   obsolete
5. Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion
6. extranjero-a; extraño-a.
7. A non-guildmember.
   obsolete
8. Relating to a different nation
9. Located away from one's native country: on business in a foreign city.
10. A foreign vehicle
    obsolete
11. A foreign ship.
    obsolete
12. Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system
13. Situated in an abnormal or improper place in the body and typically introduced from outside: a foreign object in the eye.
14. A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
    slang
15. Alien; strange; uncharacteristic
16. Not natural; alien: Jealousy is foreign to her nature.
17. An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
    obsolete
18. Not germane; irrelevant.
19. A foreign area
    dialectal
20. An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
    dialectal
21. Subject to the jurisdiction of another political unit.
22. An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
    obsolete, plural-normally
23. of, involving, located in, or coming from another country, area, people, etc: a foreign resident.
24. Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
    abbreviation, alt-of
25. dealing or concerned with another country, area, people, etc: a foreign office.
26. not pertinent or related: a matter foreign to the discussion.
27. not familiar; strange

Equivalents

Examples

“The messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns.”

“In the foreign switching lanes and we riding […] A island I wanna live somewhere silent I'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamonds Yeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lying I'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding”

“Ful foule ys þat forreyne Þat ys comoun for al certeyne.”

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