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# foreign

«foreign» in Mova's school dictionary: **from or belonging to another country, not your own** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (foreign, more foreign)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Foreign means from or belonging to another country, not your own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#m1)

2) Foreign means strange or unknown to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#m2)

3) A foreign object or body is something that is in a place where it should not be, like dirt in an eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and languages lessons: foreign countries, foreign languages, foreign money. In first aid: "a foreign body in the eye". In stories it shows something new or strange. Phrases: foreign language, foreign country, foreign currency, foreign object, foreign to (strange to).

### examples

- French is a foreign language for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x1)
- We changed our money into foreign currency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x2)
- He has never been to a foreign country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x3)
- The doctor took a foreign body out of her eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x4)
- The idea of a lie-in was foreign to my dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x5)
- Foreign visitors came to our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x6)
- Don't put foreign objects in your ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x7)
- The museum has coins from many foreign lands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x8)
- Ah, how delightful it is to travel into foreign lands!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x9)

### note

Spelling trap: f-o-r-e-i-g-n (silent g; "ei" breaks the "i before e" rule). Person: foreigner, which can sound unkind; "visitor" or "people from other countries" is kinder.

### In the corpora

- ["Regime change" means overthrowing (forcing out) a foreign government.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/7/)
- [Mei says the Qing were Chinese like all the others; the teacher says «foreign rulers».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/1/)
- [Many in China see 1949 as the end of foreign humiliation; it also began one-party rule.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/19/)
- [Leftover foreign coins still have value abroad; many airports have charity boxes for them, and banks often will not swap coins back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/3-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more/12/)
- [And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.416/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «foreign» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.