Foreign

//ˈfɒɹɪn//

Synonyms for "foreign" (183 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (37)

extraneous overseas alien exotic extrinsic imported tramontane accidental adventitious adventive anomalous apart barbarian barbaric barbarous chamber foreign curious detached disconnected

Adjective(5 words)

acquired additional adventitious alien ascititious

Adjective(1 words)

alien

Noun(12 words)

backhouse backside bog boggard boghouse carsey chamber foreign common house commons cousin john craphouse danna

Related words (91)

insular international intrusive irrelative irrelevant isolated loanword naturalized nonnative nonsubjective objective obnoxious obscure odd other outland outlandish outlying outside outward

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Adjective(8 words)

international intrusive nonresident outlandish overseas strange supplemental uncharacteristic

Noun(38 words)

issue jacques jakes jakeshouse johnny house karzy khazi kocay kybo little house long drop longhouse necessary necessary house necessary place necessary vault neddy netty outhouse outsider

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passage house petty petty-house privy privy house purging place retreat shield shithouse shitter shouse siege siegehouse thunderbox usual offices vault wardrobe withdraught

Adjective(1 words)

strange

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

1 entries

extrinsic

More specific

6 entries

implanted inculcated infused ingrafted introduced learned

Antonyms

9 entries

american domestic indigenous local local person native person

Synonyms

4 entries

alien chamber foreign extraneous overseas

derived

48 entries

Foreign Office antiforeign chamber foreign doctrine of foreign equivalents foreign accent syndrome foreign affairs foreign agent foreign aid foreign body foreign correspondent foreign country foreign currency foreign debt foreign devil foreign direct investment foreign exchange

Showing 16 of 48 words.

distinct from

4 entries

american domestic local native

etymologically related_to

1 entries

sovereign

has context

6 entries

formerly with from legal now dialect now informal state us

related to

64 entries

abroad alien alien people alien person another another country area away beyond beyond borders borders car community company countries country

Showing 16 of 64 words.

similar

31 entries

abroad adulterant adulterating adventive alien established exotic external extrinsic foreign born foreign-born imported

Showing 16 of 31 words.

Translations

331 translations across 96 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

vreemd adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Albanian

1 entries

i huaj adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Ancient Greek

4 entries

ξένος adj (located outside one's own country or place)
ξενικός adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
ἀλλότριος adj (located outside one's own country or place)
ἐξωτικός adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Arabic

4 entries

أجْنَبي adj (located outside one's own country or place)
أَجْنَبِيّ adj (located outside one's own country or place)
أَجْنَبِيّ adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
غَرِيب adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Armenian

3 entries

արտասահմանյան adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
օտար adj (located outside one's own country or place)
օտար adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Aromanian

4 entries

cãsen adj (located outside one's own country or place)
striin adj (located outside one's own country or place)
striin adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
striinã adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Asturian

3 entries

estranxeru adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
estrañu adj (located outside one's own country or place)
foriatu adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

xarici adj (located outside one's own country or place)
xarici adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
əcnəbi adj (located outside one's own country or place)
əcnəbi adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Bashkir

4 entries

сит ил adj (located outside one's own country or place)
сит ил adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
сит ил adj (relating to a different nation)
ят adj (not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system)

Basque

4 entries

atzerri adj (relating to a different nation)
atzerriko adj (located outside one's own country or place)
atzerriko adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
atzerritar adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Belarusian

4 entries

заграні́чны adj (located outside one's own country or place)
заме́жны adj (located outside one's own country or place)
заме́жны adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
зарубе́жны adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Bengali

1 entries

বৈদেশিক adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Bulgarian

3 entries

чужд adj (located outside one's own country or place)
чуждестра́нен adj (located outside one's own country or place)
чуждестра́нен adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Catalan

4 entries

Catalan: estranger adj (belonging to a different culture)
aliena adj (not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system)
aliena adj (belonging to a different organization)
aliè adj (not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

بێگانە adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

外來的 /外来的 adj (located outside one's own country or place)
外國的 /外国的 adj (located outside one's own country or place)
外國的 /外国的 adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Chukchi

2 entries

ӄуԓинутэԓьын adj (located outside one's own country or place)
ӄуԓинутэԓьын adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Church Slavic

1 entries

щоуждь adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Cimbrian

1 entries

brömade adj (alien, strange)

Czech

4 entries

cizí adj (located outside one's own country or place)
cizí adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
zahraniční adj (located outside one's own country or place)
zahraniční adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Danish

4 entries

fremmed adj (located outside one's own country or place)
fremmed adj (not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system)
fremmedartet adj (alien, strange)
udenlandsk adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Dutch

4 entries

allochtoon adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
buitenlands adj (located outside one's own country or place)
buitenlands adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
buitenlands adj (relating to a different nation)

Esperanto

4 entries

alilanda adj (located outside one's own country or place)
alilanda adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
alilanda adj (relating to a different nation)
eksterlanda adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Estonian

1 entries

võõra adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Faroese

1 entries

útlendskur adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Finnish

4 entries

syrjitty adj (held at a distance; excluded; exiled)
ulko adj (relating to a different nation)
ulkomaalainen adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
ulkomainen adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

French

3 entries

étranger adj (located outside one's own country or place)
étranger adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
étrangère adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Galician

2 entries

estranxeiro adj (located outside one's own country or place)
estranxeiro adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Georgian

3 entries

საზღვარგარეთული adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
უცხო adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
უცხოური adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

German

4 entries

ausländisch adj (located outside one's own country or place)
ausländisch adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
fremd adj (located outside one's own country or place)
fremd adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Gothic

1 entries

𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Greek

4 entries

αλλοδαπός adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
αλλοεθνής adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
ξένος adj (located outside one's own country or place)
ξένος adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Hebrew

2 entries

זָר adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
זר adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Hindi

4 entries

परदेसी adj (located outside one's own country or place)
परदेसी adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
बिदेसी adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
विदेशी adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Hungarian

1 entries

külföldi adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Icelandic

1 entries

erlendur adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Ido

2 entries

stranjera adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
stranjera adj (relating to a different nation)

Indonesian

2 entries

asing adj (alien, strange)
luar negeri adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Irish

4 entries

allúrach adj (located outside one's own country or place)
allúrach adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
coimhthíoch adj (located outside one's own country or place)
coimhthíoch adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Italian

3 entries

straniera adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
straniero adj (located outside one's own country or place)
straniero adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Japanese

2 entries

外国の adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
外来の adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Javanese

1 entries

anèh adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Kazakh

1 entries

шетелдік adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Khmer

1 entries

បរទេស adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Korean

3 entries

다른 나라의 adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
외국(外國)의 adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
외래(外來)의 adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

чет элдик adj (located outside one's own country or place)
чет өлкөлүк adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Lao

2 entries

ຕ່າງດ້າວ adj (located outside one's own country or place)
ຕ່າງປະເທດ adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Latin

4 entries

advena adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
alienus adj (located outside one's own country or place)
barbarus adj (located outside one's own country or place)
barbarus adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Latvian

4 entries

svešs adj (located outside one's own country or place)
svešs adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
svešs adj (relating to a different nation)
svešs adj (alien, strange)

Lithuanian

1 entries

svetimas adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Low German

1 entries

frömd adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

cuzy adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Luxembourgish

2 entries

auslännesch adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
friem adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Macedonian

3 entries

странски adj (located outside one's own country or place)
странски adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
туѓ adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Malay

2 entries

asing adj (located outside one's own country or place)
asing adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Middle English

4 entries

foreyn adj (located outside one's own country or place)
foreyn adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
fremde adj (located outside one's own country or place)
fremde adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Middle Low German

1 entries

vrȫmede adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Navajo

1 entries

doo tʼáá diné nilíinii adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Norman

1 entries

êtrangi adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Northern Kurdish

3 entries

biyanî adj (located outside one's own country or place)
biyanî adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
ejnebî adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries

utenlandsk adj (located outside one's own country or place)
utenlandsk adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
utenlandsk adj (relating to a different nation)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries

utanlandsk adj (located outside one's own country or place)
utanlandsk adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
utanlandsk adj (relating to a different nation)

Old English

4 entries

elþēodiġ adj (located outside one's own country or place)
elþēodiġ adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
elþēodiġ adj (relating to a different nation)
fremde adj (alien, strange)

Old High German

2 entries

framadi adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
fremidi adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Old Irish

1 entries

echtrann adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Old Javanese

1 entries

aneh adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Old Saxon

1 entries

fremiði adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Persian

4 entries

اجنبی adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
بیگانه adj (located outside one's own country or place)
بیگانه adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
خارجی adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Polish

4 entries

cudzoziemski adj (located outside one's own country or place)
cudzoziemski adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
obcy adj (located outside one's own country or place)
obcy adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Portuguese

4 entries

estrangeiro adj (located outside one's own country or place)
estrangeiro adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
estrangeiro adj (relating to a different nation)
estranho adj (not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system)

Romanian

1 entries

străin adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Russian

4 entries

вне́шний adj (relating to a different nation)
заграни́чный adj (located outside one's own country or place)
заграни́чный adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
заграни́чный adj (relating to a different nation)

Scots

2 entries

fremmit adj (located outside one's own country or place)
fremmit adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

Gallda adj (located outside one's own country or place)
Gallda adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
coimheach adj (located outside one's own country or place)
coimheach adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

inozemni adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
strȃn adj (located outside one's own country or place)
tȕđ adj (located outside one's own country or place)
иноземни adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Slovak

3 entries

cudzí adj (located outside one's own country or place)
cudzí adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
zahraničný adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Slovene

3 entries

inozemski adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
tuj adj (located outside one's own country or place)
tuj adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Spanish

4 entries

exterior adj (relating to a different nation)
extranjero adj (located outside one's own country or place)
extranjero adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
extranjero adj (relating to a different nation)

Swedish

3 entries

främmande adj (located outside one's own country or place)
främmande adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
utländsk adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Tagalog

1 entries

banyaga adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Tajik

4 entries

аҷнабӣ adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
бегона adj (located outside one's own country or place)
хориҷӣ adj (located outside one's own country or place)
хориҷӣ adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Telugu

2 entries

విదేశీ adj (located outside one's own country or place)
విదేశీ adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Tetum

1 entries

malae adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Thai

2 entries

ต่างด้าว adj (located outside one's own country or place)
ต่างประเทศ adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Tibetan

1 entries

ཕྱི་རྒྱལ adj (located outside one's own country or place)

Tocharian B

1 entries

alletstse adj (alien, strange)

Turkish

2 entries

yabancı adj (located outside one's own country or place)
yabancı adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Ukrainian

4 entries

закордо́нний adj (located outside one's own country or place)
закордо́нний adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
зарубі́жний adj (located outside one's own country or place)
зо́внішній adj (relating to a different nation)

Urdu

4 entries

بِدیسی adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
وِلائِتی adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
پَرْدیسی adj (located outside one's own country or place)
پَرْدیسی adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Uzbek

4 entries

begona adj (located outside one's own country or place)
begona adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
chet adj (located outside one's own country or place)
chet adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Venetan

2 entries

forèst adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
forèsto adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Vietnamese

4 entries

ngoại quốc adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
nước ngoài adj (located outside one's own country or place)
nước ngoài adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
xa lạ adj (alien, strange)

Volapük

1 entries

foginänik adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Welsh

1 entries

tramor adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Yan-nhangu

1 entries

mulkuruŋu adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Yiddish

3 entries

אויסלענדיש adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)
פֿרעמד adj (located outside one's own country or place)
פֿרעמד adj (originating from or characteristic of a different country)

Sample sentences

27 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Foreign people intrigue me.

Source: tatoeba (1471)

I find foreign languages very interesting.

Source: tatoeba (1801)

You seem to be prejudiced against ideas that come from foreign countries.

Source: tatoeba (16237)

It is important for you to learn a foreign language.

Source: tatoeba (17902)

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Foreign

Synonyms for "foreign" (183 found)

Closest matches (37)

Strong matches (55)

Related words (91)

Related word relations

More general

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Antonyms

Synonyms

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distinct from

etymologically related_to

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related to

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Translations

Afrikaans

Albanian

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Armenian

Aromanian

Asturian

Azerbaijani

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bulgarian

Catalan

Central Kurdish

Chinese Mandarin

Chukchi

Church Slavic

Cimbrian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Gothic

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Ido

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Kyrgyz

Lao

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

Low German

Lower Sorbian

Luxembourgish

Macedonian

Malay

Middle English

Middle Low German

Navajo

Norman

Northern Kurdish

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Nynorsk

Old English