FCDO

Adjective

foreign (comparative more foreign, superlative most foreign)

1. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
   • foreign markets; foreign soil
2. Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
   • foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade
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. (formerly with from) Alien; strange; uncharacteristic.
   • It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.

   Synonyms:

   alien, fremd

6. (obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
   • Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...

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