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unforeign

unforeign adjective: not foreign.

Adjective

unforeign (comparative more unforeign, superlative most unforeign)

  1. (uncommon) Not foreign.
    • “Your English, too, is as pure as a New Yorker's—or perhaps I should say as unforeign. Pure English is not a drug in the New York market.”1896, Bert Leston Taylor, Alvin T. Thoits, Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery, page 198
    • Water rippling and shining, fringed with inviolate trees, the unshelled houses gleaming white and red among them: England ten times herself, intoxicatingly unforeign. And the English trains, smooth movers along well-weeded tracks […]1924, Charles Edward Montague, The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures, London: Chatto & Windus, page 93

Forms of unforeign

comparativemore unforeign
superlativemost unforeign

Origin of unforeign

From un- + foreign.

Questions about unforeign

What does unforeign mean?
Unforeign means not foreign.
What part of speech is unforeign?
Unforeign is an adjective.

Words near unforeign in the dictionary

  1. unforecast
  2. unforecastable
  3. unforecasted
  4. unforegone
  5. unforeheard
  6. unforeign
  7. unforeknowable
  8. unforeknowing
  9. unforeknown
  10. unforensic
  11. unforeordained

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