alien

Signification (English)

Noun

1. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
2. A person in a country not their own.
3. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
4. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

Adj

1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
2. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
3. Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.

Verb

1. To estrange; to alienate.
2. To transfer the ownership of something.

Concepts

étranger

étrangère

extraterrestre

extra-terrestre

hideux

inconnu

abject

abominable

aliéner

contradictoire

exotique

horrible

odieux

opposé

alien

👽

bestiau

d'autrui

inhabituel

insolite

petit homme vert

d'un autre

organisme

plante

d'une autre

allogène

forain

inusuel

allochtone

étrange

des autres

créature

bizarre

faune

Synonyms

foreigner

foreign

stranger

strange

extraterrestrial

outsider

alienate

exotic

adverse

abominable

contrary

abhorrent

outlander

horrible

noncitizen

hideous

outlandish

awful

unknown

gruesome

extraneous

dispose

estrange

another’s

immigrant

different

submit

someone else’s

assign

newcomer

disaffect

extraterrestrial being

disgusting

nauseous

nasty

hostile

opposite

transfer

move

other’s

freakish

gentile

give in

give up

grant

gringo

guest

humanoid

indeterminate

inimical

invitee

liquidize

little green man

nameless

new

🆕

nonnative

novel

obscure

odd

offload

opposing

organism

out of the ordinary

overseas

pass on

pin

pitch

plaudit

play

port

praise

present

propagate

put over

queer as a clockwork orange

reassign

redeploy

relocate

remote

render

reschedule

sell

shift

spaceman

syndicate

take

fork up

traffic

transfuse

translocate

transplant

unacknowledged

unacquainted

unascertainable

unbeknown

unbeknownst

uncongenial

undisclosed

undiscoverable

undiscovered

unfamiliar

unfriendly

unheard-of

unidentified

unknowable

unnamed

unpredictable

unrecognised

unrecognized

unrevealed

unsung

unusual

unwonted

vacate

visitant

wean

yield

zooid

carry forward

deed over

foreign country

house guest

incognoscible

little-known

manoeuver

negociate

non-native

of opposite sign

sign over

yield up

space alien

ET

newly arrived/come

belonging to another

saltate

unseeyn

hinky

green guy

another's

Western

abandon

abnegate

abroad

allow

animal

🐾

attorn

beast

beastie

bring forward

brute

caller

capitulate

carry

carry over

cede

concede

contradictory

convey

creature

critter

deal

defer

deliver

demise

dislocate

dislodge

displace

distance

distribute

disturb

European

evacuate

extradite

fauna

foreign national

fork out

fork over

form

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.li.ən/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: alien

Cognate with anglais: else

In summary

From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.