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Adjective foreign has 4 senses
- foreign - of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"
Antonyms: domestic, home, interior, internal, national, municipal
- foreign - 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"
Antonyms: native, autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous, domestic, homegrown, native-born
- alien, foreign - 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"
Antonyms: intrinsic, intrinsical (indirect, via extrinsic)
- extraneous, foreign - not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"
Antonym: purifying (indirect, via adulterating)
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