foreign
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
1. A foreign person, particularly:
2. A foreign ship.
3. Clipping of chamber foreign: an outhouse.
4. A foreign area, particularly:
5. Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
Synonyms
1. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
"He liked visiting foreign cities."
2. Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
"There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started."
3. Relating to a different nation.
"foreign policy; foreign navies"
4. Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
"foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species"
5. (with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.
"It was completely foreign to their way of thinking."
6. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
7. From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
8. Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
"My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM."
9. Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
Synonyms
≠ Antonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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