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foreign
/ˈfɔɹən/
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The g is silent.
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2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“She enjoys watching foreign films.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does foreign mean?
adjective
- Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
- Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
- Relating to a different nation.
More meanings (15)
adjective
- Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
- Alien; strange; uncharacteristic.
- From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country.
- Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
- (obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
- (obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
noun
- (informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.
- (slang) A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
- An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
- Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
- (obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.
- (obsolete) A non-guildmember.
- (obsolete) A foreign ship.
- (obsolete) An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
- (obsolete) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfɔɹən/
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For the foreseeable future the economy will continue to depend for its survival on foreign aid--from CEMA, IMF, and other international sources.
Different commercial concerns must create different interests, and of course different degrees of political attachment to and connection with different foreign nations.
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A good rule that, and only relaxed by courtesy in favour of the retinue of visiting royalty from a friendly foreign power.
It is, probably, called so, too, in order to divert from it the horror with which the foreign slave trade is contemplated.
The women, her neighbours, were rather foreign to her, and Morel’s mother and sisters were apt to sneer at her ladylike ways.