foreign
Plural: foreigns
Adjective
- Belonging to a country other than one's own; alien.
- of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
- "foreign trade"
- "a foreign office"
- 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"
Adjective Satellite
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"
- "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
- not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
- "foreign particles in milk"
Adj
- 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.
- Alien; strange; uncharacteristic.
- Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
- From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country.
- Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
- Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
Noun
- A foreign person
- A foreigner: a person from another country.
- A foreign person
- An outsider: a person from another place or group.
- A foreign person
- A non-guildmember.
- A foreign vehicle
- A foreign ship.
- A foreign vehicle
- A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
- An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
- A foreign area
- An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
- A foreign area
- An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
- Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
Examples
- foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species
- foreign policy; foreign navies
- He liked visiting foreign cities.
- He often enjoyed using foreign words, provided they were accepted in the Scrabble dictionary.
- It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.
- My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM.
- There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English foreyn, forein, from Old French forain, from Vulgar Latin *forānus (“outsider, outlander”), from Latin forās (“outside, outdoors”) or forīs (“outside, outdoors”).
Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ (“foreign”) and now-dialectal English fremd, from Old English fremde (“strange, foreign”).
The silent -g- added perhaps by analogy with reign (compare also sovereign which was similarly altered).
Synonyms
alien, extraneous, strange, Cousin John, House of Commons, acquired, additional, adventitious, ascititious, backhouse, backside, bog, boggard, boghouse, carsey, chamber foreign, common house, commons, craphouse, danna, draught, draught-house, dunnekin, dunny, earth closet, foreign, fremd, gang, gingerbread office, gong, gonghouse, house of ease, house of easement, house of office, international, intrusive, issue, jacques, jakes, jakeshouse, johnny house, karzy, khazi, kocay, little house, long drop, longhouse, necessary, necessary house, necessary place, necessary vault, neddy, netty, outhouse, outlandish, overseas, passage house, petty, petty-house, privy, privy house, purging place, retreat, shield, shithouse, shouse, siege, siegehouse, supplemental, thunderbox, usual offices, vault, wardrobe, withdraught
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
foreign: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordforeign: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
foreign: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary