foreign

adj

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.”

   “The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.”

   “Foreign companies love to complain about doing business in China.[…]Amid such moans it is worth remembering that, for all the barriers that foreign multinationals face in China, it has welcomed them with open arms compared with the protectionism imposed by Japan and South Korea at comparable stages in their economic development.”

3. Relating to a different nation.

   “foreign policy; foreign navies”

   “Plus, the Department of Justice has argued in the past that SGEs are subject to the emoluments clause, which means they cannot take payments from foreign governments.”

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.”

   “[T]his deſign is not ſo foreign from ſome Peoples Thoughts, […]”

   “Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.”

6. (obsolete)Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.

   “Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died.”

7. (Canada, US)From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country.
8. Belonging to a different organization, company etc.

   “My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM.”

9. (obsolete)Outside, outdoors, outdoor.

noun

1. (informal)A foreign person

   “The messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns.”

2. (obsolete)A foreign person
3. (obsolete)A foreign person
4. (obsolete)A foreign vehicle
5. (slang)A foreign vehicle

   “In the foreign switching lanes and we riding […] A island I wanna live somewhere silent I'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamonds Yeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lying I'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding”

6. (obsolete)An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.

   “Ful foule ys þat forreyne Þat ys comoun for al certeyne.”

7. (dialectal)A foreign area
8. (obsolete, plural-normally)A foreign area
9. (abbreviation, alt-of)Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.