alien
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ən/
The English word “alien” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
- A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
adjective
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
verb
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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