Meaning | relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world. |
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Synonym | foreign |
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Attribute of | foreignness, strangeness, curiousness | The quality of being alien or not native |
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unfamiliarity, strangeness | unusualness as a consequence of not being well known |
Narrower | adventive | not native and not fully established |
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alien, exotic | Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world |
established, naturalized | introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation |
foreign-born, nonnative | Of persons born in another area or country than that lived in |
imported | Used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source |
nonnative | Of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing |
tramontane | Being or coming from another country |
unnaturalized, unnaturalised | not having acquired citizenship |
See also | unfamiliar | not known or well known |
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Opposite | native | Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin |
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Spanish | extranjero, extraño, foráneo, forastero |
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Catalan | estranger, estrangera, estrany, forà, foraster, forastera |
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