foreign

The definition of foreign is from a country other than your own.

(adjective)

See foreign in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

situated outside one's own country, province, locality, etc.: foreign lands
of, from, or characteristic of another country or countries: foreign languages
having to do with the relations of one country to another country or countries: foreign affairs, foreign trade
not subject to the laws or jurisdiction of the specified country
1. not natural to the person or thing specified; not belonging; not characteristic: a trait foreign to one's nature
2. not pertinent; irrelevant
not organically belonging; introduced from outside: said of substances found in parts of the body or in organisms where they do not naturally occur

Origin: ME forein < OFr forein, forain < LL foranus, foreign, orig., external < L foras, out-of-doors, orig. acc. pl. of OL fora, door

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See foreign in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Located away from one's native country: on business in a foreign city.
Of, characteristic of, or from a place or country other than the one being considered: a foreign custom.
Conducted or involved with other nations or governments; not domestic: foreign trade.
Situated in an abnormal or improper place in the body and typically introduced from outside: a foreign object in the eye.
Not natural; alien: Jealousy is foreign to her nature.
Not germane; irrelevant.
Subject to the jurisdiction of another political unit.

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Origin: Middle English forein

Origin: , from Old French forain

Origin: , from Late Latin forānus, on the outside

Origin: , from Latin forās, outside; see dhwer- in Indo-European roots

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