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foreign (oh) and billow 2, noun (oh)


foreign (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: forein, from Latin foris 'outside']
from or relating to a country that is not your own
::foreign students
::Can you speak any foreign Languages?
::the Success of foreign companies in various Industries
::I thought she sounded foreign.
::transactions in foreign currencies
[only before noun] involving or dealing with Other countries
-opposite domestic domestic
::America's foreign policy
foreign investment/trade etc
::Foreign competition provides consumers with a greater variety of goods.
::our budget for foreign aid (=financial help to countries in need)
::the Chinese Foreign Minister
be foreign to sb
formal a) to seem strange to someone as the result of not being known or understood
-synonym be alien to somebody be alien to somebody
::The language of finance and Economics is quite foreign to me.
b) to be not typical of someone's usual character
::Aggression is completely foreign to his Nature .
foreign body/matter/object
formal a piece of dirt, glass, or Other material that has got inside something, especially someone's body, and that should not be there
::cells that are designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies
-- foreignness n [U]

billow 2, noun (oh)



2 n [C usually plural]
[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: Probably from Old Norse bylgja]
a moving cloud or mass of something such as smoke or cloth
literary a wave, especially a very large one