foreign

Coming from, belonging to, or located in a country other than your own.

• She speaks two foreign languages.
• We exchanged some foreign currency.
• Have you visited any foreign countries?

Similar words: overseas

Opposites: domestic

Common phrases: foreign country, foreign language, foreign accent, foreign currency

Concerned with other countries and your country’s relationship with them.

• Foreign policy was discussed today.
• The foreign minister visited three countries.
• They disagreed over foreign aid.

Similar words: external

Opposites: domestic

Common phrases: foreign policy, foreign affairs, foreign relations, foreign aid

Unfamiliar to someone, or not normally belonging to a person, body, or system.

• The idea was foreign to me.
• Doctors removed a foreign object from his eye.
• Such cruelty is foreign to her nature.

How to use it: foreign to someone/something (These customs were foreign to us.)

Similar words: alien, unfamiliar

Opposites: familiar

Common phrases: foreign to someone, foreign body, foreign object