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say it: FAW-ruhn
foreign is an adjective meaning "of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)". It is pronounced /ˈfɔɹən/ — FAW-ruhn. It carries 4 recorded senses.
relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
“foreign nations”
“a foreign accent”
“on business in a foreign city”
not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
“water free of extraneous matter”
“foreign particles in milk”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for foreign come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.