alien

Meaning

Noun

1. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
2. A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
3. (derogatory, sometimes) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
4. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
5. 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. (transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
2. To transfer the ownership of something.

Synonyms

foreigner

foreign

stranger

strange

extraterrestrial

outsider

alienate

exotic

abhorrent

abominable

contrary

adverse

outlander

outlandish

awful

noncitizen

unknown

horrible

hideous

gruesome

another’s

extraneous

estrange

dispose

immigrant

different

newcomer

assign

extraterrestrial being

nauseous

submit

transfer

opposite

nasty

other’s

hostile

disgusting

disaffect

move

someone else’s

deal

critter

creature

convey

attorn

abroad

contradictory

extradite

concede

cede

Translations

étranger

straniero

extranjero

ξένος

forestiero

αλλοδαπός

estrangeiro

Ausländer

foraster

alieno

forastero

étrangère

vreemdeling

yabancı

estrany

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.li.ən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: alien

Cognate with English: 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.

Sentences

A mechanical alien head was also used for close-ups .