Meaning of unforeign | Babel Free

Definitions

Not foreign.

uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

““Your English, too, is as pure as a New Yorker's—or perhaps I should say as unforeign. Pure English is not a drug in the New York market.””

“Water rippling and shining, fringed with inviolate trees, the unshelled houses gleaming white and red among them: England ten times herself, intoxicatingly unforeign. And the English trains, smooth movers along well-weeded tracks […]”

“Song: "There's No War Like Civil War" O the Civil War's the only war, the only war, the only war; the finest war, yes, the noblest most unforeign war, […] that ever I did see.”

“And of course we must add that all of us, citizens of the Commonwealth, ought to feel as 'unforeign' in each other's countries, whether old or newly independent, as we do in our own.”

CEFR level