Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - foreign

~ adj 1 not from your own country or the country you are talking about  (Can you speak any foreign languages? | foreign tourists | I thought she sounded foreign.) 2 only before noun involving or dealing with other countries  (America's foreign policy) 3 foreign body/matter/object formal something that has come into something else, and that should not be there  (Make sure you remove all foreign matter from the wound.) 4 foreign to formal a) not typical of someone's usual character  (Any form of cruelty is foreign to his nature.) b) seeming strange and unfamiliar  (The idea of doing something just for pleasure is quite foreign to them.) - foreignness n