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foreign

/ˈfɔɹɪn/ adjectif A1

En français : étranger, étrangère

  1. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own. · foreign markets; foreign soil· He liked visiting foreign cities.
  2. Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion. · foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade· There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started.
  3. Relating to a different nation. · foreign policy; foreign navies
  4. Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system. · foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species
  5. Alien; strange; uncharacteristic. · It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.
  6. From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country. (US)
  7. Belonging to a different organization, company etc. · My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM.
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Dans la bibliothèque

Let us suppose, for example, that he had been approached by some foreign agent.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 25 · B2
Foreign people thought of you in places far away.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 25 · C1
A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 14 · B2
## VIII FOREIGN LANDS
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 2 · C1

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