Foreign

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1 English

1.1 Adjective

1.1.1 Synonyms
1.1.2 Translations

1.1.2.1 Translations to be checked

1.2 Related terms

English

Adjective

foreign (comparative more foreign, superlative most foreign)

From a different country.
foreign students
Belonging to a different culture.
Eating with chopsticks was a foreign concept to him
In a place where it does not belong.
foreign body

Synonyms

(from a different country): overseas
(belonging to a different culture): alien

Translations

from a different country

French: étranger m, étrangère f

Italian: straniero m, straniera f

belonging to different culture

in a place where it does not belong

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate tables above.

Finnish: ulkomainen, vieras

Related terms

foreign body
foreigner

WordNet Definitions

four

1. foreign (vs. domestic) -- (of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office").
2. foreign (vs. native) -- (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city").
3. alien, foreign -- (not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature").
4. extraneous, foreign -- (not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk").

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