FOREIGN

[adjective] [not gradable] - belonging or connected to a country which is not your ownSpain was the first foreign country she had visited.I wish I had learned more foreign languages at school.His work provided him with the opportunity for a lot of foreign travel.She's a former foreign correspondent for the Financial Times newspaper.(literary) Something can be described as foreign to a particular person if it is unknown to them or not within their experience.The whole concept of democracy, she claimed, was utterly foreign to the present government.An object or substance which has entered something else, possibly by accident, and does not belong there is sometimes described as foreign.a foreign object/substanceforeign matterAt the hospital they cleaned the cut thoroughly to stop any foreign bodies from getting into my arm.Foreign affairs are matters that are connected with other countries.the minister of foreign affairsForeign aid is the help that is given by esp. a richer country to esp. a poorer one, usually in the form of money.Foreign exchange is the system by which the type of money used in one country is exchanged for another country's money, making international trade easier.On the foreign-exchange markets the pound remained firm.In Britain, the Foreign Office is the department of the government which deals with Britain's connections with other countries.(literary) Foreign soil is another country.He spent 30 years in exile on foreign soil.I was 28 the first time my feet touched foreign soil.