Foreign

a.	1.	Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
	2.	Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. - Milton.
	3.	Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; - with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. - Swift.
	4.	Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died. - Shak. Foreign attachment (Law) a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; - called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Foreign bill a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. - Kent. Foreign body (Med.) a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. - Kent. Foreign office that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

Adj.	1.	foreign - of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office" Antonyms: domestic - of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction"
	2.	foreign - relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city" Antonyms: native - being such by origin; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"
	3.	foreign - not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" Synonyms: alien
	4.	foreign - not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk" Synonyms: extraneous

LAW, FOREIGN. By foreign laws are understood the laws of a foreign country. The states of the American Union are for some purposes foreign to each other, and the laws of each are foreign in the others. See Foreign laws.

accidental, adventitious, apart, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, curious, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distant, distasteful, exterior, external, exterrestrial, exterritorial, extragalactic, extralateral, extraliminal, extramundane, extramural, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrapolar, extraprovincial, extrasolar, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, extratribal, extrinsic, foreign-born, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, imported, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent, insular, intrusive, irrelative, isolated, nonsubjective, objective, obnoxious, odd, other, outland, outlandish, outlying, outside, outward, overseas, peculiar, remote, removed, repellent, repugnant, segregate, separate, separated, tramontane, transalpine, transatlantic, transpacific, ulterior, unaffiliated, unallied, unassimilable, unassociated, unconnected, unearthly, unfamiliar, unknown, unrelatable, unrelated

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