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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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foreign

/ˈfɒrɪn/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈfɒrɪn/
foreign
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

fo - reign -> foreign

Myanmar meaning

(adj) (က) နိုင်ငံခြား။ တိုင်းတစ်ပါး။ ~ to sb/sth (fml) ပင်ကိုသဘာဝ မဟုတ်သော။ ပင်ကိုစရိုက်မဟုတ်သော။ (fml) ပြင်ပ။ မျိုးခြား။ မသက်ဆိုင်သော။

Full entry

foreign / 'fɒrǝn; US 'fↄ:r- / adj

၁။ (က) နိုင်ငံခြား။ တိုင်းတစ်ပါး။ foreign languages / goods / students ❍ a foreign-owned company. (ခ) နိုင်ငံခြား။ ပြည်ပ။ foreign affairs/ news/policy/trade ❍ foreign aid (ie money, etc given by one country to another in need).
၂။ ~ to sb/sth (fml ) ပင်ကိုသဘာဝ မဟုတ်သော။ ပင်ကိုစရိုက်မဟုတ်သော။ Dishonesty is foreign to his nature.
၃။ (fml ) ပြင်ပ။ မျိုးခြား။ မသက်ဆိုင်သော။
a foreign body (eg a hair or piece of dirt) in the eye.
❏ the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (abbr FCO ) နိုင်ငံခြားနှင့် ဓနသဟာယနိုင်ငံများရုံး။ Compare THE HOME OFFICE
❏ foreigner n
၁။ နိုင်ငံခြားသား။ တိုင်းတစ်ပါးသား။
၂။ မဆိုင်သူ။ အပြင်လူ။ လူစိမ်း။
❏ foreign exchange n [U] နိုင်ငံခြားငွေကြေး။
the foreign exchange markets.
❏ the Foreign Secretary n နိုင်ငံခြားနှင့် ဗြိတိသျှ ဓန သဟာယ ရုံးဆိုင်ရာ ဗြိတိသျှအစိုးရ ဝန်ကြီး။

More examples
  • Working in a foreign country takes some getting used to.
  • Do you speak any foreign languages?
  • They’ve already had two foreign holidays this year.
  • Foreign policy
  • The part of the newspaper dealing with foreign affairs
  • In some versions of free-market economics, the notion of public service is quite foreign.
  • [foreign to] : She was in a state of deep depression that was totally foreign to her nature.
  • The immune system’s response to foreign proteins
Synonyms
overseas, distant, far-off, accidental, adopted, adventitious, alien, alienated, antipodal, barbarian, barbaric, borrowed, derived, different, estranged, exiled, exotic, expatriate, experience, external, extralocal, extraneous, extraterritorial, extrinsic, far, far-fetched, faraway, from abroad, heterogeneous, immaterial, immigrant, impertinent, imported, inaccessible, inapposite, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, irrelative, irrelevant, nonnative, nonresident, not domestic, not native, offshore, outlandish, outside, remote, repugnant, strange, transcontinental, transoceanic, unaccustomed, unassimilable, uncharacteristic, unconnected, unexplored, unfamiliar, unknown, unrelated
Antonyms
characteristic, familiar, indigenous, known, local, national, native, regular, relevant
Cross references
overseasdistantfar-offaccidentaladoptedadventitiousalienalienatedantipodalbarbarianbarbaricborrowedderiveddifferentestrangedexiledexoticexpatriateexperienceexternalextralocalextraneousextraterritorialextrinsicfarfar-fetchedfarawayfrom abroad
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