Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Foreign; belonging to or coming from abroad.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad.

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  • adjective foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad

Etymologies

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Latin exterraneus; ex out + terra land.

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