FOREIGN COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreign country mean? 

• FOREIGN COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun FOREIGN COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. any state of which one is not a citizen

  Familiarity information: FOREIGN COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGN COUNTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any state of which one is not a citizen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to

Hypernyms ("foreign country" is a kind of...):

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)

 Context examples 

Migration into a foreign country to live permanently there.

(Immigration, NCI Thesaurus)

We have been in a variety of places, and seen a deal of foreign country.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What foreign country was he going to, Bessie?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Alternatively, you might finally have your immigration interview or receive your green card, visa, or citizenship in a foreign country.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

An indication that all or part of the research on a grant to a US institution is either conducted in a foreign country, uses foreign subjects or their tissues or medical data, or involves collaboration with foreign researchers.

(Foreign Component, NCI Thesaurus)

I think, answered the bean, that as we have so fortunately escaped death, we should keep together like good companions, and lest a new mischance should overtake us here, we should go away together, and repair to a foreign country.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

By taking a journey to a foreign country, you will adopt an exciting new perspective.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Well, you know Missis always said they were poor and quite despicable: and they may be poor; but I believe they are as much gentry as the Reeds are; for one day, nearly seven years ago, a Mr. Eyre came to Gateshead and wanted to see you; Missis said you were at school fifty miles off; he seemed so much disappointed, for he could not stay: he was going on a voyage to a foreign country, and the ship was to sail from London in a day or two.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It might involve taking a long trip to a foreign country, or it might be that someone you love—such as a soldier deployed for a long time overseas—will suddenly surprise you by coming home for the holidays.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The news may come from a person in a foreign country, or you may need to travel to work on your project—until month’s end, you may not even know you’ll be heading to the airport.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)