word-vault/dist/data/cards/fo/foreign.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "foreign",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "in or from a country that is not your own",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What **foreign languages** do you speak?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It can be a challenge at first living in a **foreign country**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I went to the bank to get some **foreign currency**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a foreign-owned company"
                },
                {
                    "text": "foreign holidays"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He spoke with a foreign accent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had no money and was alone in a foreign country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cinema often shows foreign films."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The collection of plants includes many native and foreign species."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were very few foreign cars on the roads in those days."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tourism is the country's biggest foreign currency earner."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Holidays"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
                "adverb": ["slightly", "distinctly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "dealing with or involving other countries",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This is a huge departure for the country's **foreign policy**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country relies heavily on **foreign aid**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The area is trying to attract **foreign investment**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Iran's **foreign ministry**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Japanese **foreign minister**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **foreign correspondent** *(= one who reports on foreign countries in newspapers or on television)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new president had no experience of foreign affairs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There have been changes in both domestic and foreign policy."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
                "adverb": ["slightly", "distinctly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "not typical of somebody/something; not known to somebody/something and therefore seeming strange",
            "sensetop": "foreign to somebody/something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Dishonesty is foreign to his nature."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This kind of attitude is completely foreign to her."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["very", "completely", "entirely"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "an object that has entered something by accident and should not be there",
            "sensetop": "foreign object/body",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Tears help to protect the eye from potentially harmful foreign bodies."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɒrən/",
                "audio": "fo/foreign/foreign__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɔːrən/",
                "audio": "fo/foreign/foreign__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English foren, forein, from Old French forein, forain, based on Latin foras, foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’. The current spelling arose in the 16th cent., by association with sovereign."
}