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Alien

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.

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

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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