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Alien

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Noun

1. alien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlander

a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

2. alien, stranger, unknown

anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

3. alien, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being

a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere

Verb

4. alien, alienate

transfer property or ownership

Example Sentences:
'The will aliened the property to the heirs'

5. alien, alienate, disaffect, estrange

arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Example Sentences:
'She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious'

Adjective

6. alien, foreign

not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something

Example Sentences:
'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'

7. alien, exotic

being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world

Example Sentences:
'alien customs'
'exotic plants in a greenhouse'
'exotic cuisine'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Alien

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noun
1. 
a person owing allegiance to a country other than that in which he or she lives; foreigner
2. 
any being or thing foreign to the environment in which it now exists
3. 
(in science fiction) a being from another world, sometimes specifically an extraterrestrial
adjective
4. 
unnaturalized; foreign
5. 
having foreign allegiance
alien territory
6. 
unfamiliar; strange
an alien quality in a work of art
7. (postpositive; and foll by to)
repugnant or opposed (to)
war is alien to his philosophy
8. 
(in science fiction) of or from another world
verb
9. (transitive) rare
to transfer (property, etc) to another

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Alien

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adjective
1. 
belonging to another country or people; foreign
2. 
strange; not natural
cruel words alien to his lips
3. 
opposed or repugnant
beliefs alien to one's religion
4. 
of aliens
noun
5. 
a foreigner
6. 
a foreign-born resident in a country who has not become a naturalized citizen
7. 
an outsider
8. 
in science fiction, a being in or from outer space and not native to the Earth; extraterrestrial
verb transitive
9. 
to transfer (land, property, etc.)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Alien

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adj.
1. Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign: alien residents.
2. Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange.
3. Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature: emotions alien to her temperament.
n.
Law
1. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen.
2. A person from another and very different family, people, or place.
3. A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.
4. A creature from outer space: science fiction about an invasion of aliens.
5. Ecology An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.
tr.v. a·li·ened, a·li·en·ing, a·li·ens
Law
To transfer (property) to another; alienate.

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