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forraign

forraign is the obsolete spelling 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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Forms of forraign

comparativemore forraign
superlativemost forraign

Questions about forraign

What is forraign the obsolete spelling of?
Forraign is the obsolete spelling of foreign.

Words near forraign in the dictionary

  1. Forrabury
  2. Forrabury and Minster
  3. forrad
  4. forrader
  5. forrads
  6. forraign
  7. forraine
  8. forrard
  9. forrarder
  10. forrards
  11. forray

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