Foreign
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Foreign adjective – Being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own. Usage example: more Americans should take an interest in foreign languages
Native is an antonym for foreign in topics: alien, experience, domestic, irrelevant.
Nearby Word: foreigner
Antonyms for Foreign
Things that words describes
| girl | foreign girl | native girl |
| woman | foreign woman | native woman |
| people | foreign people | native people |
| culture | foreign culture | native culture |
| Other nouns: land, characters, world, soil, country, language, accent, planet, city, names, gods, countries, accents, cultures, nations. | ||
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There was a feeling in Britain for much of the 20th century that the foreign office was cynical and conservative and similar disappointment when Labour foreign ministers were often seen to have 'gone native'.
Source: Going Native -
Many British folk are a permanent example of this and many foreign and native observers have tried to rationalise their apparent obsession with the weather, to the point where anthropologists have subjected to serious study.
Source: Talk About the Weather - Foreign characters may pop up in fiction, but often regular characters who are not native (to the country the work is set in) tend to have native ethnicity somewhere in their family.
Source: But Not Too Foreign
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Native and Foreign. (2016). Retrieved 2021, March 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/foreign/native
Foreign & Native. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Mar. 2021. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/foreign/native>.
Native or Foreign. 2016. Accessed March 01, 2021. https://thesaurus.plus/related/foreign/native.
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