[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/foreign/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) / foreign # foreign adjective (foreign, more foreign) «foreign» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. Foreign means from or belonging to another country, not your own. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#m1) 2. Foreign means strange or unknown to you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#m2) 3. A foreign object or body is something that is in a place where it should not be, like dirt in an eye. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#m3) ### In the lessons In geography and languages lessons: foreign countries, foreign languages, foreign money. In first aid: "a foreign body in the eye". In stories it shows something new or strange. Phrases: foreign language, foreign country, foreign currency, foreign object, foreign to (strange to). ### Examples - French is a foreign language for me. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x1) - We changed our money into foreign currency. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x2) - He has never been to a foreign country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x3) - The doctor took a foreign body out of her eye. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x4) - The idea of a lie-in was foreign to my dad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x5) - Foreign visitors came to our school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x6) - Don't put foreign objects in your ears. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x7) - The museum has coins from many foreign lands. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x8) - Ah, how delightful it is to travel into foreign lands!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/#x9) ### Note Spelling trap: f-o-r-e-i-g-n (silent g; "ei" breaks the "i before e" rule). Person: foreigner, which can sound unkind; "visitor" or "people from other countries" is kinder. ## In Jewish tradition The "foreign gods" are idols from other peoples. A master could not sell a Hebrew maidservant to a foreign people. **Interpretation.** Jacob burying the idols is read by tradition as a clean break from idol worship before going up to Bethel. The law protecting the maidservant is read as showing care for the weak. ### Examples - And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem. (Torah GEN.35.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x1) - If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x2) - How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? (Writings PSA.137.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x3) - There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. (Writings PSA.81.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x4) - And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods. (Prophets 1KI.11.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x5) ### Note Spelling trap: f-o-r-e-i-g-n (silent g; "ei" breaks the "i before e" rule). Person: foreigner, which can sound unkind; "visitor" or "people from other countries" is kinder. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «foreign» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreign/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«foreign» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/foreign.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «foreign» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«foreign» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/foreign.html) on Mova free.