Foreign

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Located away from one's native country.
  • adjective. Of, characteristic of, or from a place or country other than the one being considered.
  • adjective. Conducted or involved with other nations or governments; not domestic.
  • adjective. Situated in an abnormal or improper place in the body and typically introduced from outside.
  • adjective. Not natural; alien.
  • adjective. Not germane; irrelevant.
  • adjective. Subject to the jurisdiction of another political unit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not native; alien; belonging to, characteristic of, or derived from another country or nation; exotic; not indigenous: as, foreign animals or plants; the large foreign population in the United States; foreign manner.
  • Having an alien situation or relation; external to or away from one's native country: as, a foreign country or jurisdiction; to enter a foreign army or school.
  • [In law, for certain purposes, chiefly in the determination of private rights in a case of conflict of laws, the legislation and the judicial decisions of any one of the United States are commonly spoken of as foreign with respect to the other States, especially as regards matters not within the jurisdiction of the national government. Thus, in each State corporations formed under the law of any other State are termed foreign corporations. On the other hand, as commerce is subject to regulation by Congress, the term foreign port, when used in reference to such commerce, implies a port outside of the United States; when used, however, in reference to a State law giving a lien upon shipping, it may also mean a port of any other State.]
  • Relating to or connected with another country or other countries; pertaining to external relations or jurisdiction: as, foreign diplomacy; a foreign minister; the department of foreign affairs in a government.
  • Being in a place other than its own; not naturally connected with its surroundings: specifically said of an object, as a bullet or any material, present in a part of the body or in any other situation which is normally free from such intrusion. Thus, sand in the eye, or a splinter or dead bone in the flesh, is foreign matter or a foreign body.
  • Not belonging (to); not connected (with); extraneous; irrelevant; not to the purpose: with to, or sometimes from: as, the sentiments you express are foreign to your heart; this design is foreign from my thoughts.
  • Excluded; not admitted; held at a distance.
  • noun. A stranger; a foreigner; specifically, one who is not a citizen of the place referred to: opposed to freeman.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien
  • adjective. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality
  • adjective. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from
  • adjective. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
  • adjective. a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process.
  • adjective. a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4.
  • adjective. a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without.
  • adjective. that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. From a different country.
  • adjective. belonging to a different culture.
  • adjective. Of an object, etc, in a place where it does not belong.
  • adjective. From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
  • adjective. Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
  • noun. foreigner
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
  • adjective. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
  • adjective. not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
  • adjective. of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
  • Word Usage
    "The English mind took naturally to rebellion, —when foreign, —and it felt particular confidence in the Southern Confederacy because of its combined attributes, —foreign rebellion of English blood, —which came nearer ideal eccentricity than could be reached by Poles, Hungarians, Italians or Frenchmen."
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