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What does foreign mean?

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Adjective
  1. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
  2. Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
  3. Relating to a different nation.
  4. Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
  5. (with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.
  6. (obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
  7. (US, state law) From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
  8. Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
  9. (obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
Noun
  1. A foreign person, particularly:
    1. (now informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.
    2. (obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.
    3. (obsolete) A non-guildmember.
  2. (obsolete) A foreign ship.
  3. (obsolete) Clipping of chamber foreign: an outhouse.
  4. A foreign area, particularly:
    1. (now dialect) An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
    2. (plural) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
  5. Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
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