alien in English dictionary

  • alien

    Meanings and definitions of "alien"

    • 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.
    • Pertaining to an alien.
    • Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
    • (transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
    • (law) To transfer the ownership of something.
    • adjective
      Pertaining to an alien.
    • adjective
      Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
    • adjective
      Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
    • noun
      A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
    • noun
      A foreigner residing in a country.
    • noun
      Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.
    • noun
      One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To estrange; to alienate.
    • verb
      (law)
      To transfer the ownership of something.
    • Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
    • A creature from another planet.
    • alien (from another planet)
    • person, etc. from outside
    • foreigner
    • life form of non-Earth origin
    • Pertaining to an alien
    • Being unfamiliar with
    • A person who comes from a foreign country.
    • adjective
      being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
    • adjective
      not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "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"
    • noun
      anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
    • noun
      a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
    • noun
      a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
    • verb
      transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"

    Synonyms of "alien" in English dictionary

    stranger, interloper, transfer are the top synonyms of "alien" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "alien" in English dictionary

    citizen is the antonym of "alien" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of alien

    • alien ( third-person singular simple present aliens, present participle aliening, simple past and past participle aliened)
    • alien ( plural  aliens)
    • alien ( comparative more alien, superlative most alien)
    • alien (comparative more alien, superlative most alien)
    • alien (plural aliens)
    • alien (third-person singular simple present aliens, present participle aliening, simple past and past participle aliened)
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