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forane

forane is the obsolete form of foreign.

Meaning of foreign

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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Adjective

forane (not comparable)

  1. (postpositional) Only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane.

Forms of forane

comparativemore forane
superlativemost forane

Origin of forane

See foreign.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin forāneus (“from elsewhere, foreign, non-resident”), from forās (“outdoors”) + -āneus, likely formed by analogy with extrāneus.

Phrases with forane

Questions about forane

What does forane mean?
Forane means only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane.
What is forane the obsolete form of?
Forane is the obsolete form of foreign.
What part of speech is forane?
Forane is an adjective.

Words near forane in the dictionary

  1. foraminulous
  2. forams
  3. Foran
  4. Forand
  5. Forands
  6. forane
  7. foraneous
  8. Forans
  9. foras land
  10. foras lands
  11. forasdar

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