foreign

Definition

  • adjective: located outside a particular place or country and especially outside your own country
  • adjective: situated outside a place or country
  • often + 'to'
  • synonyms: extraneous, outlandish, distant

Examples

  • a 'foreign correspondent' [=a journalist who reports from a foreign country]

  • a 'foreign'-born resident [=a resident who was born in a foreign country]

  • Our country has to export more in order to earn more 'foreign exchange'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Make no mistake. I hate this slave more than any living man... but he can guide us to Morgana. What matters more to you? A foreign wench or vengeance for Ragnar? Because of him... your father lies at the bottom of the fjord. That's not true! (..)
    1958 The Vikings