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foreign

FOR-in/ˈfɔːrən/

Originating outside one's own country or familiar setting.

The traveler arrives in a foreign country with luggage and a passport.

Traveler arrives in visibly different country: luggage, passport with no readable writing, distant Japanese temple and street architecture, white adult visitor observes respectfully.
Etymology
foreignOld Frenchouter, external; foreign

Forain expressed being outside or external. In English, that outside position was applied to national boundaries, describing places beyond them and people born elsewhere.

In context

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how will this now affect the importation of foreign cars in this country?
THE ENERGY CRISIS - PRESIDENT CARTER'S PLAN

More examples

  • The company sells its products in foreign markets.
  • The nurse checks the wound for foreign objects.
  • That kind of hostility is foreign to her nature.

Forms

foreign

foreigner noun — A person from another country.

Similar words

overseas
Specifies a location across the sea, not merely abroad.
external
Means outside a particular system, not necessarily another country.
unfamiliar
Emphasizes lack of recognition or experience rather than origin.