English-Hungarian translations for foreign

• idegen
  2. sz. kulcstevékenység: idegen nyelvek. Key activity 2: foreign languages.
  Ezek a pártok nem maradhatnak idegen testek. Such parties should not remain foreign bodies.
  Ez teljesen idegen elem a csomagban. It is an entirely foreign element in the package.
• külföldi
  Egy másik példa az Egyesült Államok legújabb, a külföldi hírszerzés felügyeletéről szóló törvénye. Another example is the recent US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
  Ez valóban külföldi versenyért kiált. This really calls for foreign competition.
  A külföldi vállalkozások számára mindez előnyös volt. Foreign companies have benefited from this.

Definition of foreign

• Located outside a country or place, especially one's own
• Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion
• Relating to a different nation
• Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system
• Alien; strange
• Held at a distance; excluded; exiled
• From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation
• Outside, outdoors, outdoor
• A foreign person, ''particularly:''
• A foreign ship
• A foreign area, ''particularly''
• Short for various phrases, including''''foreign language''', '''foreign parts''', ''and''''foreign service'

Examples

• foreign markets; foreign soil
• He liked visiting foreign cities
• foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade
• There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started
• foreign policy; foreign navies
• foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species
• It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.
• My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM

Related words

• foreigner
• foreign-language
• foreignness
• antiforeign
• foreignism
• antiforeignism
• foreign-born
• foreign country
• Foreign Minister