Dictionary Definition
foreign adj
1 of concern to or concerning the affairs of
other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign
office" [ant: domestic]
2 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" [ant: native]
3 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" [syn: alien]
4 not belonging to that in which it is contained;
introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous
matter"; "foreign particles in milk" [syn: extraneous]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
Synonyms
- (from a different country): overseas
- (belonging to a different culture): alien
- (in a place where it does not belong): extraneous
Derived terms
Translations
from a different country
- Arabic: (ğarí:b)
- Asturian: estranxeru
- Catalan: estranger
- Chinese: 外國的, 外国的 (wàiguó-de)
- Czech: cizí
- Danish: udlænding, udenlandsk
- Dutch: buitenlands, allochtoon (modern usage)
- Finnish: ulkomainen, vierasmaalainen
- French: étranger, étrangère
- German: ausländisch
- Hebrew: זר (zar)
- Hindi: (videshee)
- Hungarian: külföldi
- Irish: eachtrach
- Italian: straniero, straniera
- Japanese: 外国の (がいこくの, gaikoku no)
- Korean: 외국 (外國, oeguk), ~의 (~ui); 다른 나라 (dareun nara), ~의 (~ui)
- Kurdish: بێگانه
- Latvian: ārzemju
- Norwegian: utenlandsk
- Old English: elþeodig
- Polish: cudzoziemiec , cudzoziemka
- Portuguese: estrangeiro
- Romanian: străin
- Russian: иностранный
- Scottish Gaelic: coimheach, Gallda
- Spanish: extranjero
- Swedish: främmande, utländsk
- Telugu: విదేశీ (videshee)
- Turkish: yabancı
- Vietnamese: ngoại quốc, nước ngoài
- Welsh: tramor
belonging to a different culture
- Asturian: foriatu, estranxeru
- Czech: cizorodý
- Danish: fremmed, fremmede p
- Dutch: vreemd, allochtoon
- Finnish: muukalainen
- German: fremd
- Greek: ξένος (xénos)
- Hebrew: זר (zar)
- Hungarian: idegen
- Kurdish:
- Polish: obcy , obca , obcy
- Portuguese: estranho
- Romanian: străin
- Russian: чуждый (čúždyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: coimheach, Gallda
- Swedish: främmande
- Vietnamese: xa lạ
in a place where it does not belong
- Asturian: estrañu, foriatu
- Czech: cizí
- Danish: fremmed, fremmede p
- Dutch: vreemd
- Finnish: vieras
- German: fremd
- Hebrew: זר (zar)
- Italian: estraneo, estranea
- Japanese: 外来の (gairai-no)
- Polish: obcy , obca , obcy
- Portuguese: estranho
- Russian: инородный (inoródnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: coimheach, Gallda
- Spanish: extraño
- Swedish: främmande
- Telugu: విదేశీ (videshee)
- Vietnamese: lạ
Extensive Definition
Foreign may refer to:
- Foreign corporation, a corporation that can do business outside its jurisdiction
- Foreign key, a constraint in a relational database
- Foreign language, a language not spoken by the people of a certain place
- Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries of the world
- Foreign Policy, an American magazine
See also
- Foreigner (disambiguation)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accidental, adventitious, alien, apart, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, curious, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distant, distasteful, exotic, exterior, external, exterrestrial, exterritorial, extragalactic, extralateral, extraliminal, extramundane, extramural, extraneous, extraorganismal,
extrapolar, extraprovincial,
extrasolar, extraterrestrial,
extraterritorial,
extratribal,
extrinsic,
foreign-born, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, imported, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incommensurable,
incomparable,
incompatible,
incongruous,
inconsistent,
inconsonant,
independent,
insular, intrusive, irrelative, isolated, nonsubjective, objective, obnoxious, odd, other, outland, outlandish, outlying, outside, outward, overseas, peculiar, remote, removed, repellent, repugnant, segregate, separate, separated, strange, tramontane, transalpine, transatlantic, transpacific, ulterior, unaffiliated, unallied, unassimilable, unassociated, unconnected, unearthly, unfamiliar, unknown, unrelatable, unrelated