The difference between Foreign and Native
When used as nouns, foreign means a foreigner: a person from another country, whereas native means a person who is native to a place.
When used as adjectives, foreign means located outside a country or place, especially one's own, whereas native means belonging to one by birth.
check bellow for the other definitions of Foreign and Native
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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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Native as an adjective:
Belonging to one by birth.
Examples:
"This is my native land."
"English is not my native language."
"I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…"
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Native as an adjective:
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
Examples:
"What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians."
"The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines."
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Native as an adjective:
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Native as an adjective:
Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
Examples:
"a native inhabitant"
"native oysters or strawberries"
"Many native artists studied abroad."
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Native as an adjective (biology, of a species):
Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.
Examples:
"The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple."
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Native as an adjective (computing, of software):
Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
Examples:
"This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds."
"The native integer size is sixteen bits."
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Native as an adjective (mineralogy):
Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
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Native as an adjective:
Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
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Native as an adjective:
Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
Examples:
"native dust"
"rfquotek Milton"
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Native as an adjective:
Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
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Native as a noun:
A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
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Native as a noun (in particular):
A person of aboriginal stock, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. .
Examples:
"Some natives must have stolen our cattle."
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Native as a noun:
A native speaker.
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Native as a noun:
Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.