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foreign [ fo·reign ]
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1. Of, from, in, or characteristic of a country or language other than one's own.
My father was a foreign language major at Yenching University.
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2. Dealing with or relating to other countries.
The bad news didn't end with the foreign policy.
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3. Of or belonging to another district or area.
Then I did distribution for foreign films in Japan, mainly gay films.
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4. Coming or introduced from outside.
the quotation is a foreign element imported into the work
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5. Strange and unfamiliar.
The sunlight seemed strange, foreign somehow, as if filtered through a glass.
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6. (foreign to) Not belonging to or characteristic of.
crime and brutality are foreign to our nature
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Origin
1. Middle English foren, forein, from Old French forein, forain, based on Latin foras, foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’. The current spelling arose in the 16th century, by association with sovereign.
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