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unforeign en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + foreign.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) Not foreign.
   • Water rippling and shining, fringed with inviolate trees, the unshelled houses gleaming white and red among them: England ten times herself, intoxicatingly unforeign. And the English trains, smooth movers along well-weeded tracks […] 1924, Charles Edward Montague, The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures, London: Chatto & Windus, page 93:
   • Song: "There's No War Like Civil War" O the Civil War's the only war, the only war, the only war; the finest war, yes, the noblest most unforeign war, […] that ever I did see. 1991, Robert Sward, Four Incarnations: New & Selected Poems, 1957-1991, Minneapolis, Minn.: Coffee House Press:
   • And of course we must add that all of us, citizens of the Commonwealth, ought to feel as 'unforeign' in each other's countries, whether old or newly independent, as we do in our own. 1964, Commonwealth Challenge:
   • “Your English, too, is as pure as a New Yorker's—or perhaps I should say as unforeign. Pure English is not a drug in the New York market.” 1896, Bert Leston Taylor, Alvin T. Thoits, Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery, page 198:

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Translations (1)

de unfremd (not foreign)