alien
Meaning
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- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- A person in a country not their own.
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
Synonyms
another’s
someone else’s
extraterrestrial being
other’s
organism
fork up
yield
deed over
little-known
negociate
of opposite sign
newly arrived/come
belonging to another
unseeyn
green guy
another's
foreign national
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈeɪ.li.ən/
Etymology
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.
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