alien
Forms
- Plural
- aliens
- Comparative
- more alien
- Superlative
- most alien
- present (v1)
- alien
- past (v2)
- aliened
- past participle (v3)
- aliened
- present participle
- aliening
- 3rd person singular
- aliens
Definitions
1.A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
2.A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
- Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.
- An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
- The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens, not owing allegiance to the United States.
3.A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
4.Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
1.Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
2.Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- An alien sound of melancholy.
3.Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
1.To estrange; to alienate.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3474
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.