foreign
of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,791 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,108 times across 175,173 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) foreign tradea foreign office
- relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world also: strange foreign nationsa foreign accent
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something also: alien an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalismthe mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper
- not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source also: extraneous water free of extraneous matterforeign particles in milk
foreign in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Most important among the foreign embassages undertaken by Fletcher was the one to Russia.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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He rose by degrees from mere spelling to the study of a foreign language, German.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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She was clever and vulgar and snobbish, and never so intensely British as when she was particularly foreign.
Greville Fane · Henry James · Chapter 1
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Cold, stiff, aping evidently the English style, he expressed himself in brief sentences, and with a strong foreign accent.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He proposed that one gentleman should give him one word of a foreign sentence, and tell him its place in the sentence.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1