foreign
Definitions
- A foreign person
- A foreigner: a person from another country.
- Located outside a country or place, especially one's own
- An outsider: a person from another place or group.
- Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion
- extranjero-a; extraño-a.
- A non-guildmember.
- Relating to a different nation
- Located away from one's native country: on business in a foreign city.
- A foreign vehicle
- A foreign ship.
- Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system
- Situated in an abnormal or improper place in the body and typically introduced from outside: a foreign object in the eye.
- A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
- Alien; strange; uncharacteristic
- Not natural; alien: Jealousy is foreign to her nature.
- An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
- Not germane; irrelevant.
- A foreign area
- An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
- Subject to the jurisdiction of another political unit.
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An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court. obsolete, plural-normally
- of, involving, located in, or coming from another country, area, people, etc: a foreign resident.
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Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service. abbreviation, alt-of
- dealing or concerned with another country, area, people, etc: a foreign office.
- not pertinent or related: a matter foreign to the discussion.
- not familiar; strange
Equivalents
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Afrikaansvreemd
Azərbaycan dilixarici
বাংলাবৈদেশিক
བོད་སྐད།ཕྱི་རྒྱལ
Cymraegtramor
Eestivõõra
Euskaraatzerritar
Gàidhligcoimheach
Galegoestranxeiro
עבריתזר
Magyarkülföldi
Հայերենօտար
ÍslenskaErlendur
Қазақ тілішетелдік
ភាសាខ្មែរបរទេស
Lietuviųsvetimas
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
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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