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foreign

SYLLABICATION:	for·eign
PRONUNCIATION:	fôrn, fr-
ADJECTIVE:	1. Located away from one's native country: on business in a foreign city. 2. Of, characteristic of, or from a place or country other than the one being considered: a foreign custom. 3. Conducted or involved with other nations or governments; not domestic: foreign trade. 4. Situated in an abnormal or improper place in the body and typically introduced from outside: a foreign object in the eye. 5. Not natural; alien: Jealousy is foreign to her nature. 6. Not germane; irrelevant. 7. Subject to the jurisdiction of another political unit.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English forein, from Old French forain, from Late Latin fornus, on the outside, from Latin fors, outside. See dhwer- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	foreign·ness —NOUN
SYNONYMS:	foreign, alien, exotic, strange These adjectives mean of, from, or characteristic of another place or part of the world: a foreign accent; alien customs; exotic birds; moved to a strange city.


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