单词 | foreign land |
释义 | > as lemmasforeign land a. Designating a land or country other than one's own; not in one's own land or country; situated abroad or overseas; as in foreign country, foreign land, foreign nation, foreign parts, foreign port, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad althedyOE strange1297 foreigna1393 outward1427 extern1543 abroad1559 external1587 stranger1593 tramontane1596 oversea1645 transmontane1727 trans-oceanic1827 overseas1892 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 973 He hield..governance of every yle Which was longende unto Cizile, Of hem that fro the lond forein Leie open to the wynd al plein. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 122 (MED) Men gon beȝonde þo iourneys toward ynde & to the foreyn yles. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxix. 577 Kynge Alein of the forayn londes. 1523 Act 14 & 15 Henry VIII c. 1 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 206 Preamble The said outwarde and forren regions. 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. B3 Whil'st I in forreigne Kingdomes search my Fate. 1685 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified Ep. Ded. 1 Your..Affairs abroad have..given you a better knowledge and experience of Foreign Parts. 1700 J. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 313 In some forain universities. ?1789 E. Gibbon Let. 28 Mar. (1956) III. 144 The autumn was remarkably populous in such Englishmen as I am not ashamed to acknowledge in foreign countries. 1815 N. Amer. Rev. July 221 For many years England has suffered no manufacture of any foreign nation, except Russian ‘crash’, and a few other coarse articles, to enter its ports. 1844 Manch. Courier 8 June 3/6 The spiritual welfare of British subjects resident in the colonies and foreign countries. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 385 In some foreign clime which is..beyond our ken. 1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea iii. viii. 240 The glamour of visiting a foreign port, still showed no signs of palling. 1973 J. Symons Plot against Roger Rider ii. 45 Are they going to be stranded in a foreign city?.. Reassured, the package tourists sink into their seats. 2017 @krista_tagaras 20 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 19 July 2021) Just wanna be eating pineapple on a foreign beach with the love of my life. < as lemmas |
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