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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
foreign
for·eign BrE [ˈfɒrən] NAmE [ˈfɔːrən] NAmE [ˈfɑːrən] adjective
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. only before noun 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)
Opp: ↑domestic, Opp: ↑home
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.
Word Origin:
Middle English foren, forein, from Old French forein, forain, based on Latin foras, foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’. The current spelling arose in the 16th cent., by association with ↑sovereign.
Thesaurus:
foreign [foreign] adj.
•What foreign languages do you speak?
especially business politics overseas • • external • |often disapproving alien •
Opp: native, Opp: domestic, Opp: home
(a/an) foreign/overseas/alien country/territory
foreign/overseas/external trade/markets/debt/policy
a foreign/an overseas bank/firm/holiday/tour/trip
a foreign/an alien culture/language/species/system
Which word? Foreign is the most frequent of these words and has the widest range. Overseas and external are factual words with no suggestion of ‘strangeness’, which foreign and alien sometimes have. Alien can also be used to describe plants and animals from a foreign country.
Example Bank:
•The name sounded foreign.
•This kind of attitude is completely foreign to her.
•a slightly foreign accent
•He was appointed Home Secretary and then later Foreign Secretary.
•She had no money and was alone in a foreign country.
•She was working as a foreign correspondent.
•The cinema often shows foreign films.
•The collection of plants includes many native and foreign species.
•The new president had no experience of foreign affairs.
•There have been changes in both domestic and foreign policy.
•There were very few foreign cars on the roads in those days.
•Tourism is the country's biggest foreign currency earner.
•What foreign languages do you speak?
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