Foreign Adjective Bre ˈfɒrən ˈfɔːrən Accent/Language/Student Foreign Owned Company

• a foreign accent/language/student
• a foreign-owned company
• foreign holidays
• you could tell she was foreign by the way she dressed.

foreign

1. in or from a country that is not your own
• a foreign accent/language/student
• a foreign-owned company
• foreign holidays
• You could tell she was foreign by the way she dressed.
2. dealing with or involving other countries
• opposite domestic
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/domestic_1
• foreign affairs/news/policy/trade
• foreign aid
• a foreign correspondent (= one who reports on foreign countries in newspapers or on television)
3. not typical of somebody/something; not known to somebody/something and therefore seeming strange
• Dishonesty is foreign to his nature.
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.

Extra Examples

• The name sounded foreign.
• This kind of attitude is completely foreign to her.
• a slightly foreign accent
• He was appointed Home Secretary and then later Foreign Secretary.
• She had no money and was alone in a foreign country.
• She was working as a foreign correspondent.
• The cinema often shows foreign films.
• The collection of plants includes many native and foreign species.
• The new president had no experience of foreign affairs.
• There have been changes in both domestic and foreign policy.
• There were very few foreign cars on the roads in those days.
• Tourism is the country’s biggest foreign currency earner.
• What foreign languages do you speak?

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.