adjective
- Of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own. )
- usage: "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"
- Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
- usage: "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"
- synonyms: strange
- Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
- usage: "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
- synonyms: alien
- Not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source.
- usage: "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"
- synonyms: extraneous
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