Foreign Country Adjective ˈfɒrən ˈfɔːrən Languages Speak Challenge

• what foreign languages do you speak?
• it can be a challenge at first living in a foreign country.
• i went to the bank to get some foreign currency.
• a foreign-owned company

foreign

1. in or from a country that is not your own
• What foreign languages do you speak?
• It can be a challenge at first living in a foreign country.
• I went to the bank to get some foreign currency.
• a foreign-owned company
• foreign holidays
• He spoke with a foreign accent.
• You could tell she was foreign by the way she dressed.

Extra Examples

• The name sounded foreign.
• She had no money and was alone in a foreign country.
• The cinema often shows foreign films.
• The collection of plants includes many native and foreign species.
• There were very few foreign cars on the roads in those days.
• Tourism is the country's biggest foreign currency earner.
2. dealing with or involving other countries
• OPPOSITE domestic
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/domestic_2
• This is a huge departure for the country's foreign policy.
• The country relies heavily on foreign aid.
• The area is trying to attract foreign investment.
• Iran's foreign ministry
• the Japanese foreign minister
• a foreign correspondent (= one who reports on foreign countries in newspapers or on television)

Extra Examples

• The new president had no experience of foreign affairs.
• There have been changes in both domestic and foreign policy.
3. not typical of somebody/something; not known to somebody/something and therefore seeming strange
• Dishonesty is foreign to his nature.
• This kind of attitude is completely foreign to her.
4. an object that has entered something by accident and should not be there
• Tears help to protect the eye from potentially harmful foreign bodies.

Word Origin

• Middle English foren, forein, from Old French forein, forain, based on Latin foras, foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’. The current spelling arose in the 16th cent., by association with sovereign.