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Alien

Alien Meaning & Definition
Alien Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Alien?

[n] a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
[n] a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
[n] anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
[adj] being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "moved to a strange country"
[adj] not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
[v] arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Synonyms | Synonyms for Alien: alienate | disaffect | estrange | exotic | extraterrestrial | extraterrestrial being | extrinsic | foreign | foreigner | noncitizen | outlander | strange | stranger | unknown

Related Terms | Find terms related to Alien: abalienate | adversary | adversative | adverse | alienate | alter | antagonistic | anti | antipathetic | antithetic | apart | apartheid | assign | astronaut | auslander | barbarian | barbaric | barbarous | case | cede | change | character | clashing | color bar | competitive | con | conflicting | contradictory | contrary | convert | convey | cosmonaut | counter | crackpot | crank | cross | deed | deracine | detached | disaccordant | disaffect | disconnected | discrete | disjunct | displaced person | disrelated | dissentient | dissociated | disunify | disunite | division | eccentric | emigre | enemy | ethnocentrism | exclusiveness | exile | exotic | exterior | external | exterrestrial | exterritorial | extragalactic | extralateral | extraliminal | extramundane | extramural | extraneous | extrapolar | extraprovincial | extrasolar | extraterrene | extraterrestrial | extraterritorial | extratribal | extrinsic | fanatic | foreign | foreign devil | foreign-born | foreigner | fractious | give up | gringo | hand over | hermit | hobo | hostile | immigrant | incommensurable | incomparable | incompatible | incongruous | inconsonant | independent | inimical | insular | insularity | insulation | intrusive | irrelative | isolated | isolation | Jim Crow | know-nothingism | kook | lone wolf | loner | make over | man from Mars | Martian | maverick | meshuggenah | narrowness | natural | negative | newcomer | nonconformist | noncooperative | nut | obstinate | odd fellow | oddball | oddity | opponent | opposed | opposing | opposite | oppositional | oppositive | oppugnant | original | other | otherworldly | outcast | out-group | outland | outlander | outlandish | outlaw | outside | outsider | overthwart | pariah | parochialism | persona non grata | perverse | planetary colony | quarantine | queer duck | queer fish | queer specimen | race hatred | racial segregation | rara avis | recalcitrant | refractory | refugee | relinquish | remise | removed | repugnant | rival | rocket man | rocketeer | screwball | seclusion | segregate | segregation | separate | separated | separation | sign over | snobbishness | solitary | space | space crew | space traveler | spaceman | strange | stranger | the Wandering Jew | tightness | tramontane | tramp | transcendental | transmundane | type | Uitlander | ulterior | ultramontane | unaffiliated | unallied | unassociated | unconnected | uncooperative | unearthly | unfamiliar | unfavorable | unfriendly | unpropitious | unrelatable | unrelated | wanderer | wean | xenophobia | zealot

See Also | alter | au pair | change | deportee | drift apart | drift away | exile | gringo | hypothetical creature | import | importee | interloper | intruder | metic | outsider | traveler | traveller | trespasser | wean

Alien In Webster's Dictionary

\Al"ien\, a. [OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another; properly, therefore, belonging to another. See {Else}.] 1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores. 2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. --Wordsworth. {Alien enemy} (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. --Abbott.
\Al"ien\, n. 1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See {Alienage}. 2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies. Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. --Ephes. ii. 12.
\Al"ien\, v. t. [F. ali['e]ner, L. alienare.] To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] ``It the son alien lands.'' --Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. --Clarendon.

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