The difference between Foreign and Fremd
When used as nouns, foreign means a foreigner: a person from another country, whereas fremd means stranger.
When used as adjectives, foreign means located outside a country or place, especially one's own, whereas fremd means strange.
check bellow for the other definitions of Foreign and Fremd
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Foreign as an adjective:
Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
Examples:
"foreign markets''; ''foreign soil"
"He liked visiting foreign cities."
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Foreign as an adjective:
Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
Examples:
"foreign car''; ''foreign word''; ''foreign citizen''; ''foreign trade"
"There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started."
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Foreign as an adjective:
Relating to a different nation.
Examples:
"foreign policy''; ''foreign navies"
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Foreign as an adjective:
Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
Examples:
"foreign body''; ''foreign substance''; ''foreign gene''; ''foreign species"
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Foreign as an adjective (with ''to'', formerly with ''from''):
Alien; strange.
Examples:
"It was completely foreign to their way of thinking."
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Foreign as an adjective (obsolete):
Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
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Foreign as an adjective (US, state, _, legal):
From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
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Foreign as an adjective:
Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
Examples:
"My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM."
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Foreign as an adjective:
Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
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Foreign as a noun:
A foreign person, particularly: A foreigner: a person from another country. An outsider: a person from another place or group. A non-guildmember.
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Foreign as a noun (obsolete):
A foreign ship.
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Foreign as a noun:
an outhouse.
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Foreign as a noun:
A foreign area, particularly: An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits. An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
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Foreign as a noun:
Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
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Fremd as an adjective (rare, chiefly, dialectal):
Strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant.
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Fremd as an adjective (rare, chiefly, dialectal):
Not akin; unrelated.
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Fremd as an adjective (rare, chiefly, dialectal):
Out of the ordinary; unusual; strange, weird.
Examples:
"a fremd day"
"Something fremd has been going on here."
"A fremd man this."
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Fremd as an adjective (obsolete):
Wild; untamed.
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Fremd as a noun (rare, or, chiefly dialectal):
stranger; guest
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Fremd as a noun (archaic, or, obsolete):
an enmity