Foreign and Native

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Foreign

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
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Native is an antonym for foreign in topics: alien, experience, domestic, irrelevant.
Nearby Word: foreigner

Native

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Usage example: though she now lived in the Northeast, she was a native Midwesterner
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Antonyms for Native
Foreign is an antonym for native in topics: innate, domestic.
Nearby Words: nativity, natively
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  • Talk About the Weather 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
  • Going Native 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
  • 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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