foreign
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Is foreign a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of foreign?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange; uncharacteristic.Examples: "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."Synonyms: alien, fremd
2. (obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.Examples: "Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died."obsolete
3. (US, Canada, law) From a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country.CanadaUS
4. (obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.obsolete
noun (English)
1. A foreign person, particularly:Examples: "The messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns."informal
2. A foreign person, particularly:obsolete
3. A foreign person, particularly:obsolete
4. A foreign vehicle, particularly:obsolete
5. A foreign vehicle, particularly:Examples: "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"slang
6. (obsolete) An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.Examples: "Ful foule ys þat forreyne Þat ys comoun for al certeyne."Synonyms: backhouse, backside, bog, boggard, boghouse, carsey, chamber foreign, common houseobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary