foreign
/ˈfɒɹən/ · noun
Meaning
- A foreign person, particularly:
- A foreign ship.
- Clipping of chamber foreign: an outhouse.
- A foreign area, particularly:
- Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
- 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.
- Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
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