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      foreign
      noun
      A foreign person, particularly:
      (now informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.
      A foreign vehicle, particularly:
      (slang) A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
      A foreign area, particularly:
      (now dialect) An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
      Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
      (obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.
      (obsolete) A non-guildmember.
      (obsolete) A foreign ship.
      (obsolete) An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
      (obsolete, usually in the plural) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
      adjective
      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; uncharacteristic.
      (US, Canada, law) From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country.
      Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
      (obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
      (obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
      Roots
      forisforeign- · Latin · out of doors, outside
      Synonyms for foreign
      alienadjoverseasadjextraneousadjstrangeadjimportedadjexoticadjunfamiliaradjexternaladjtramontanen
      Words related to foreign
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