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Meaning of foreign

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  foreign
      adj 1: of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations
             (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign
             office" [ant: {domestic}]
      2: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another
         place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign
         accent"; "on business in a foreign city" [syn: {foreign},
         {strange}] [ant: {native}]
      3: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of
         something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of
         capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and
         temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [syn: {alien},
         {foreign}]
      4: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced
         from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter";
         "foreign particles in milk" [syn: {extraneous}, {foreign}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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