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

  • (..) What if he's got ? You don't know for sure it's LeFors. I'm a hell of a guesser. He can't arrest you. It's a foreign country. He can't take you back. He's not going to take anybody back. He's going to wait for us (..)
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid