Foreign

Adjective

 * 1) From a different country.
 * foreign students
 * 1) Belonging to a different culture.
 * Eating with chopsticks was a foreign concept to him
 * 1) Of an object, etc, in a place where it does not belong.
 * foreign body
 * 1) 🇺🇸 From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
 * 2) Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
 * My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM.

Adverbs for Foreign
harmlessly; objectionably; inadmissably; unconformably; strangely; remotely; irrelevantly; outlandishly; undeniably; ostentatiously; palpably; essentially; obviously; disagreeably; inconceivably; relatively; diseordantly; impertinently; fantastically; exotically; intrusively; inimically; disinterestedly; extraneously.

Synonyms for Foreign

 * overseas, international
 * alien, fremd
 * extraneous
 * strange, external, extraneous, extrinsic, outside, far, exotic, remote, distant, exterior, irregular, irrelevant, different, unnatural, unaccustomed, unknown.

Antonyms for Foreign

 * (from a different country): domestic
 * (belonging to a different culture): native
 * (native to an area): indigenous
 * near, regular, known, local, original, familiar, similar, like, accustomed, interior.

Derived terms

 * foreigner
 * foreignness
 * foreign body
 * foreign country
 * foreign debt
 * foreign exchange
 * foreign key
 * foreign tongue
 * foreign policy
 * Foreign Office

Thesaurus
accidental, adventitious, alien, apart, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, curious, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distant, distasteful, exotic, exterior, external, exterrestrial, exterritorial, extragalactic, extralateral, extraliminal, extramundane, extramural, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrapolar, extraprovincial, extrasolar, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, extratribal, extrinsic, foreign-born, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, imported, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent, insular, intrusive, irrelative, isolated, nonsubjective, objective, obnoxious, odd, other, outland, outlandish, outlying, outside, outward, overseas, peculiar, remote, removed, repellent, repugnant, segregate, separate, separated, strange, tramontane, transalpine, transatlantic, transpacific, ulterior, unaffiliated, unallied, unassimilable, unassociated, unconnected, unearthly, unfamiliar, unknown, unrelatable, unrelated

Etymology
forein from forain:, from Vulgar Latin *undefined:, from  foras:, foris:. Displaced native elendish, ellendish "foreign" (from  elelendisc, compare  ellende "foreign", elland "foreign land"),  eltheodi, eltheodish "foreign" (from  elþēodiġ, elþēodisc  "foreign"), and non-native  peregrin "foreign" (from 🇫🇴 peregrin).

Translations

 * Arabic: غريب, أجنبي
 * Armenian: արտասահմանյան
 * Asturian: estranxeru
 * Azeri: əcnəbi
 * Belarusian: замежны
 * Bengali: বৈদেশিক
 * Catalan:, ; , estrangera
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: udlænding, udenlandsk
 * Dutch: buitenlands, allochtoon (modern usage)
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, fremd
 * Greek: αλλοεθνής, ,
 * Hebrew: זר
 * Hindi: विदेशी
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: eachtrach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 外国
 * Korean: 외국 (外國 + 의); 다른 나라


 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: externus, externa, externum, advena, advena
 * Latvian: ārzemju
 * Macedonian: странски
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:, خارجی
 * Polish: zagraniczny, cudzoziemski, obcy
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, зарубежный,  иноземный, заграничный
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: coimheach, Gallda
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: విదేశీ (videshee)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: іноземний
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: tramor
 * Yiddish: פרעמד


 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: foriatu, estranxeru
 * Bengali: বৈদেশিক
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: cizorodý
 * Danish: fremmed, fremmede
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: זר (zar)
 * Hungarian:


 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: extraneus, extranea, extraneum
 * Macedonian: туѓ
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish:, obca,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: coimheach, Gallda
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Asturian: estrañu, foriatu
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fremmed, fremmede
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: זר (zar)
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 外来の (gairai-no)


 * Latin: extraneus, extranea, extraneum
 * Macedonian: туѓ
 * Polish: obcy, obca , obcy
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: coimheach, Gallda
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: విదేశీ (videshee)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: