foreign
part of speech
adjective (foreign, more foreign)
meaning for a pupil
1) Foreign means from or belonging to another country, not your own. tree →
2) Foreign means strange or unknown to you. tree →
3) A foreign object or body is something that is in a place where it should not be, like dirt in an eye. tree →
sense 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 →
- We changed our money into foreign currency. tree →
- He has never been to a foreign country. tree →
- The doctor took a foreign body out of her eye. tree →
- The idea of a lie-in was foreign to my dad. tree →
- Foreign visitors came to our school. tree →
- Don't put foreign objects in your ears. tree →
- The museum has coins from many foreign lands. tree →
- Ah, how delightful it is to travel into foreign lands!" tree →
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 the corpora
- "Regime change" means overthrowing (forcing out) a foreign government.
- Mei says the Qing were Chinese like all the others; the teacher says «foreign rulers».
- Many in China see 1949 as the end of foreign humiliation; it also began one-party rule.
- Leftover foreign coins still have value abroad; many airports have charity boxes for them, and banks often will not swap coins back.
- And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «foreign» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.