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 [onlybeforenoun] dealing with or involving other countries:
foreign affairs / news / policy / trade * foreign aid * a foreign correspondent (= one who reports on foreign countries in newspapers or on television)
OPPHOME
3 ~ to sb/sth (formal) not typical of sb/sth; not known to sb/sth and therefore seeming strange:
Dishonesty is foreign to his nature.
4 ~ object / body (formal) an object that has entered sth by accident and should not be there:
Tears help to protect the eye from potentially harmful foreign bodies.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is foreign a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, foreign is tagged as adjective.
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