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alien
/ˈeɪliən/
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What does alien mean?
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.
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
More meanings (8)
noun
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- (derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
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
- To estrange; to alienate.
- To transfer the ownership of something.
proper noun
- Alternative form of Alian.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈeɪliən/
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English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we shoveled them all into the English fences according to their dates.
I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind.
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Teach our young to love the soil and to till it well, or else an alien race will take away their heritage.
We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.
To be cool in the cold is the sign of a vitality quite exquisitely alien from the common conditions of the world.