transcription, транскрипция: [ fɒrɪn, AM fɔ:r- ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Something or someone that is foreign comes from or relates to a country that is not your own.
...in Frankfurt, where a quarter of the population is foreign...
She was on her first foreign holiday without her parents.
...a foreign language...
It is the largest ever private foreign investment in the Bolivian mining sector.
ADJ
2.
In politics and journalism, foreign is used to describe people, jobs, and activities relating to countries that are not the country of the person or government concerned.
...the German foreign minister...
I am the foreign correspondent in Washington of La Tribuna newspaper of Honduras.
...the effects of US foreign policy in the ‘free world’.
ADJ : ADJ n
3.
A foreign object is something that has got into something else, usually by accident, and should not be there. ( FORMAL )
The patient’s immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
4.
Something that is foreign to a particular person or thing is not typical of them or is unknown to them.
The very notion of price competition is foreign to many schools...
ADJ : usu v-link ADJ to n