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foreign
Part of speech: AdjectiveBelonging to, or connected with, another nation or country; alien.
Usage examples "foreign":- I never saw such a wonderful place in my life, but until I got used to it, I couldn't help feeling that it was more like a splendid foreign hotel, than a mere house. - "Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water", Lowell, Orson.
- On his return from a foreign station, after an absence of two years, his children were ordered from school to meet him. - "Precaution", James Fenimore Cooper.
- And here my vision Was over all we saw, but not a part Of what we saw, for all we saw stood forth As foreign to myself as something touched To learn the thing it is. - "Toward the Gulf", Edgar Lee Masters.