Definition of Foreign

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Foreign

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.

Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.

Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.

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Foreign Quotations

All of life is a foreign country.
Jack Kerouac

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
John W. Snow

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Foreign Translations

foreign in Afrikaans is vreemd
foreign in Danish is udenlandsk, fremmed
foreign in Dutch is uitheems, buitenlands
foreign in Finnish is vieras
foreign in Italian is straniero, estero
foreign in Latin is externus, alienus, extrarius
foreign in Portuguese is extrangeiro
foreign in Spanish is ajeno


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