Word Finder - foreign

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A foreign person, particularly:

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A foreign ship.

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Clipping of chamber foreign: an outhouse.

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A foreign area, particularly:

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Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.

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Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.

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He liked visiting foreign cities.

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Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.

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There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started.

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Relating to a different nation.

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foreign policy; foreign navies

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Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.

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foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species

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(with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.

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It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.

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Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.

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From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.

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Belonging to a different organization, company etc.

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My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM.

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Outside, outdoors, outdoor.

Large movements in any large foreign market are newsworthy.

This resignation was possibly due to his dislike of Henry's foreign policy.

Her file --two inches thick --was yet more proof that the world that seemed foreign to her really wasn't.

The idea of having to "earn a living" will be completely foreign to us.

The room was a-chatter with foreign conversation, the words having nothing to do with national roots but the fanatic avocation of the gathered guests.

These feelings were totally foreign and unwelcome.

They exchanged a greeting in a foreign language that sounded like Russian before he held out his hand to her.

The concept of something more was as foreign to him as peace, and yet he wanted the image on the leaf to be real.

There's nothing like it in old paintings, nothing like it in foreign lands--unless when we were off the coast of Spain.

The summary of results might as well have been in a foreign language with the medical terminology, abbreviations and sprinkling of what seemed like random numbers.

Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies.

Once a nation shows its willingness to seize foreign-owned property at will, foreign investors are reluctant to do business there again.

This is all that his foreign education has done for him!

There were two people present; their scent, although foreign, smelled deliciously inviting.

I wanted to say the entire French Foreign hiding in the other room but before I could speak, we both could barely hear a voice.

He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of men--the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartoryski....

In Vilna she had formed an intimacy with a young foreign prince.

The foreign trade is not large, and consists chiefly in the exportation of pineapples and other fruit.

The Nabataeans had already some tincture of foreign culture when they first appeared in history.

Mission Park (10 acres) here is adorned by native and foreign shrubs and by maples, elms, pines and arbor vitae, and "Haystack Monument" in this park marks the place where Samuel John Mills (1783-1818), in 1806, held the prayer meeting which was the forerunner of the American foreign missionary movement.

The frontier which they form is inconveniently long, enclosing an acute-angled wedge of foreign territory - the modern Baden and Wurttemberg.

That province was under the able government of Ali Vardi Khan, who peremptorily forbade the foreign settlers at Calcutta and Chandernagore to introduce feuds from Europe.

The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, the paper reported.

To this party belonged the foreign nobles, Wolzogen, Wintzingerode, and others, chiefly Germans.

How much then must the probability of fire be increased in an abandoned, wooden town where foreign troops are quartered.

He is violently opposed to the court and the foreign favourites.

In men Rostov could not bear to see the expression of a higher spiritual life (that was why he did not like Prince Andrew) and he referred to it contemptuously as philosophy and dreaminess, but in Princess Mary that very sorrow which revealed the depth of a whole spiritual world foreign to him was an irresistible attraction.

On all disputed points, whether commercial, religious or political, his advice was invariably sought by the foreign ministers and the Chinese alike.

In the Goblet ministry of1886-1887he was minister of public instruction, and in the Bourgeois cabinet of1895-1896he held the portfolio for foreign affairs.

She was beguiled by the romantic atmosphere of the foreign city.

It is evident that the normal blue is more or less diluted with extraneous white light, having its origin in reflections from the grosser particles of foreign matter with which the air is usually charged.

Hastings himself always regarded them as incidents in his general scheme of foreign policy.

From this port foreign merchandise found its way duty free into the Spanish provinces of Buenos Aires, Tucuman and Paraguay, and even into the interior of Peru.

He was a Knight of the Coburg Order, "Dem Verdienste," and of the Prussian Order, "Pour le Merite," and a member of at least ten foreign Academies.

Both the foreign minister and our ambassador in Vienna knew him and valued him.

He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip over his shoulder, as when Rostov had seen him on the eve of the battle of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast.

The vibrant downtown has restaurants on every corner, some of them with authentic foreign offerings that keep guests coming back for more.

His order was calm, the slight accent in his voice foreign.

Evelyn spoke to her, her words foreign.

During his tenancy of office the system adopted at Shanghai was applied to the other treaty ports, so that when on Mr Lay's resignation Mr Hart was appointed inspector-general of foreign customs, he found himself at the head of an organization which collected a revenue of upwards of eight million taels per annum at fourteen treaty ports.

Another difficulty is that Italian and foreign capitalists, have produced a great rise in prices which has not been compensated by a rise in wages.

The Netherlanders detested the Spaniards and everything Spanish, and this foreign mercenary force, together with the new bishops, was looked upon as part of a general plan for the gradual overthrow of their rights and liberties.

He published Lives of Foreign Statesmen (1830), The Greek and the Turk (1853), and Reigns of Louis X VIII.

At first he concentrated his attention on foreign affairs.

In 1852 he went to India, and while travelling in that country he was appointed under-secretary for foreign affairs in his father's first administration.

Tarentum is remarkable as the only foreign settlement made by the Spartans.

Ionian Greeks fleeing from foreign invasion founded Siris about 650 B.C., and, much later, Elea (540).

Foreign enemies pressed heavily on it.

In 1827 the port was opened to commerce, national and foreign.

They would say, If government is obligated to protect its citizens from a foreign invader, then it is obligated to protect them from a criminal.