situated outside a place or country, esp one's own country
a foreign country
born in, belonging to, or characteristic of some place or country other than one's own or the one under consideration
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue — Virginia Woolf
concerned with or dealing with other nations
foreign affairs
foreign minister
foreign trade
occurring in an abnormal situation in the living body and commonly introduced from outside
a foreign body
(usu + to) alien in character; not characteristic of (somebody or something)
behaviour that is foreign to my nature
(+ to) not connected or relevant
of or proceeding from some other person or thing than the one under consideration
foreignness noun
[Middle English forein via Old French from late Latin foranus on the outside, from Latin foris outside]