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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 |