foreign

Adj

1. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
2. Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
3. Relating to a different nation.
4. Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
5. Alien; strange; uncharacteristic.
6. (obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
7. (Canada, US) From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country.
8. Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
9. (obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.

Noun

1. (informal) A foreign person
2. (obsolete) A foreign person
3. (obsolete) A foreign person
4. (obsolete) A foreign vehicle
5. (slang) A foreign vehicle
6. (obsolete) An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
7. (dialectal) A foreign area
8. (obsolete, plural-normally) A foreign area
9. (abbreviation, alt-of) Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɒɹɪn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: foreyn

In summary

From Middle English foreyn, forein, from Old French forain, from Vulgar Latin *forānus (“outsider, outlander”), from Latin forās (“outside, outdoors”) or forīs (“outside, outdoors”).
Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ (“foreign”) and now-dialectal English fremd, from Old English fremde (“strange, foreign”).
The silent -g- added perhaps by analogy with reign (compare also sovereign which was similarly altered).

Synonyms

alien

👽

strange

exotic

external

outlandish

stranger

overseas

other

extraneous

abroad

different

unfamiliar

unknown

another’s

someone else’s

tramontane

English

European

exterior

foreigner

guest

outsider

oversea

unusual

other’s

of foreign manufacture

foreign-language

from abroad

from elsewhere

fremd

hostile

inappropriate

invitee

irrelevant

oddball

offshore

open

open-air

British

🇬🇧

out

outer

outlander

barbarous

outlying

outside

belonging to others

outward

outwards

out-landish

barbarian

Translations

étranger

extranjero

straniero

ausländisch

fremd

estrangeiro

buitenlands

forestiero

ξένος

estraneo

estranho

estero

ajeno

vreemd

foraneo

Sentences

Sanjiang University also recruits foreign students .