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foreign

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈfɒɹɪn

Definitions

  1. A foreign person
  2. A foreigner: a person from another country.
  3. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own
  4. An outsider: a person from another place or group.
  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.
  8. Relating to a different nation
  9. Located away from one's native country: on business in a foreign city.
  10. A foreign vehicle
  11. A foreign ship.
  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.
  15. Alien; strange; uncharacteristic
  16. Not natural; alien: Jealousy is foreign to her nature.
  17. An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
  18. Not germane; irrelevant.
  19. A foreign area
  20. An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
  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

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Cymraegtramor
Eestivõõra
Euskaraatzerritar
Gàidhligcoimheach
עבריתזר
Հայերենօտար
Bahasa Indonesiaasingluar negerimanca-
ÍslenskaErlendur
日本語外国の外来の
Қазақ тілішетелдік
ភាសាខ្មែរបរទេស
Lëtzebuergeschauslänneschfriem
Lietuviųsvetimas
Македонскистранскитуѓ
Bahasa Melayuasing
Românăstrăin
Slovenčinacudzí
Тоҷикӣхориҷӣ
Tagalogbanyaga
Türkçeyabancı
O'zbekchaxorijiy

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.”

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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