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Sounds | faa'rahn; fao'rahn |
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Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own). |
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Examples | "foreign trade"; "a foreign office" |
Similar | abroad, overseas; external, international, outside |
See also | international |
Contrary | domestic |
Meaning | Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world. |
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Examples | "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city" |
Attribute of | unfamiliarity, strangeness; foreignness, strangeness, curiousness |
Similar | adventive; alien, exotic; nonnative; established, naturalized; foreign-born, nonnative; imported; tramontane; unnaturalized, unnaturalised |
See also | unfamiliar |
Contrary | native |
Meaning | Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something. |
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Examples | "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" |
Synonyms | alien |
Similar to | extrinsic |
Meaning | Not belonging to that in which it is contained. Introduced from an outside source. |
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Examples | "foreign particles in milk" |
Synonyms | extraneous |
Similar to | adulterating, adulterant |