Alien
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English
Noun
Alien (plural Aliens)- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- A foreigner residing in a country.
- Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.
Adjective
Alien (comparative more Alien, superlative most Alien)
- Pertaining to an alien.
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
Verb
Alien (third-person singular simple present Aliens, present participle Aliening, simple past and past participle Aliened)
- (transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
- (law) To transfer the ownership of something.
Synonyms for Alien
- fremd, extraterrestrial, strange, opposed, hostile, distant, foreign, inappropriate, inapplicable, contradictory, unlike, irrelevant, contrasted, contrary, conflicting, unconnected, extraneous.
Antonyms for Alien
akin, alike, relevant, corresponding, appropriate, proper, apropos, native, friendly.
Related terms
Etymology
From Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else, later exotic, foreign”) from alius (“other”). Compare Ancient Greek αλλος (allos, “another, different”) and Old English elles (“else”).
