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 food have we got left? - Let me see. Oh, yes. Lovely. Lembas bread. And look! More Lembas bread. I don't usually hold with foreign food... ...but this Elvish stuff, it's not bad. Nothing ever dampens your spirits, does it, Sam? Those rain clouds might. This looks strangely familiar. (..)
    2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers