Word Meanings - OVERSEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Beyond the sea; foreign.
Related words: (words related to OVERSEA)
- FOREIGNER
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. - FOREIGNNESS
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot. - BEYOND
1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or - FOREIGN
foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton. 2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born - FOREIGNISM
Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.