foreign
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
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).
Inflected forms:
form: more foreign
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most foreign
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: forane
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: forraine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
pos: adj
examples: foreign markets; foreign soil
He liked visiting foreign cities.
gloss: Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
pos: adj
examples: foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade
There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started.
The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
Foreign companies love to complain about doing business in China.[…]Amid such moans it is worth remembering that, for all the barriers that foreign multinationals face in China, it has welcomed them with open arms compared with the protectionism imposed by Japan and South Korea at comparable stages in their economic development.
gloss: Relating to a different nation.
pos: adj
examples: foreign policy; foreign navies
Plus, the Department of Justice has argued in the past that SGEs are subject to the emoluments clause, which means they cannot take payments from foreign governments.
gloss: Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
pos: adj
examples: foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species
gloss: Alien; strange; uncharacteristic.
pos: adj
examples: It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.
[T]his deſign is not ſo foreign from ſome Peoples Thoughts, […]
Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
gloss: Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died.
gloss: From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
gloss: Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
pos: adj
examples: My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM.
gloss: Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: overseas
international
extraneous
acquired
additional
adventitious
ascititious
foreign
intrusive
outlandish
strange
supplemental
tramontane
Antonyms: domestic
native
indigenous
innate
natural
Derived words: antiforeign
chamber foreign
doctrine of foreign equivalents
foreign accent syndrome
foreign affairs
foreign agent
foreign aid
foreign body
foreign-born
foreign correspondent
foreign country
foreign currency
foreigncy
foreign debt
foreign devil
foreign direct investment
foreigner
foreign exchange
foreign exchange certificate
foreign exchange market
foreign exchange risk
foreign fighter
foreign investment
foreignise
foreignism
foreignization
foreignize
foreign key
foreign language
foreign legion
foreignly
foreign minister
foreign money
foreign muck
foreign national
foreignness
Foreign Office
foreign policy
foreign portfolio investment
foreign secretary
foreign service
foreign species
foreign tongue
foreign trade
forex
hyperforeign
nonforeign
semiforeign
unforeign
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