See Also: foreign(dictionary)
Foreign(medicine)
Foreign(finance)
LAW, FOREIGN(law)
foreign aid(encyclopedia)
FOREIGN(law)
foreign(dictionary)
Foreign Legion(encyclopedia)
Ear, foreign object in(health)
Foreign currency(money)

foreign (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: forein, from Latin foris 'outside']
from or relating to a country that is not your own
::foreign students
::Can you speak any foreign languages?
::the success of foreign companies in various industries
::I thought she sounded foreign.
::transactions in foreign currencies
[only before noun] involving or dealing with other countries
-opposite domestic domestic
::America's foreign policy
foreign investment/trade etc
::Foreign competition provides consumers with a greater variety of goods.
::our budget for foreign aid (=financial help to countries in need)
::the Chinese Foreign Minister
be foreign to sb
formal a) to seem strange to someone as the result of not being known or understood
-synonym be alien to somebody be alien to somebody
::The language of finance and economics is quite foreign to me.
b) to be not typical of someone's usual character
::Aggression is completely foreign to his nature .
foreign body/matter/object
formal a piece of dirt, glass, or other material that has got inside something, especially someone's body, and that should not be there
::cells that are designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies
-- foreignness n [U]