{
  "id": "foreign.geographic",
  "term": "foreign",
  "sense": "geographic",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "different from here",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "difference.relation",
      "location.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "others that are different from this location together are not here",
    "novel_properties": [
      "outside belonging",
      "different origin"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth, a structure built and operated by multiple nations not native to space.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, New Zealand imposed a travel ban on all foreign nationals during the COVID-19 border closure.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, is a foreign galaxy to the Milky Way.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "local.spatial",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "foreign"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-foreign.geographic"
}