foreign country

Noun

Meaning

any state of which one is not a citizen

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

abroad alien land distant land foreign land foreign state faraway country faraway land foreign territory adopted country unknown country unfamiliar land country over the sea distant country unknown land land beyond the seas

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Antonyms

fatherland homeland motherland birthplace country of origin native land

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Hypernyms

commonwealth state country land nation body politic

Examples

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling

All of life is a foreign country. Jack Kerouac

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. Clifton Fadiman

These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway. Bonar Law

I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. [The loss taught me] not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. I did the best I could, but I failed. Jimmy Carter

Close letter words and terms

foreign car foreign correspondent foreign countries foreign currency foreign debt foreign delegation