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   alien

   /ˈeɪlɪən/

   adjective

   • 1. belonging to a foreign country: "an alien culture" Similar foreignoverseasnon-nativeexternaldistantremoteOpposite native
   • ▪ (of a plant or animal species) introduced from another country and later naturalized: "many food chains are based upon alien plants"
   • 2. unfamiliar and disturbing or distasteful: "principles that are alien to them" Similar unfamiliarunknownunheard offoreignstrangepeculiaroddbizarreoutlandishremoteexoticnovelincompatible withunusual foropposed toconflicting withcontrary toadverse toin conflict withat variance withantagonistic tounacceptable torepugnant tohostile toinimical torare:oppugnant toOpposite familiarfamiliar
   • 3. supposedly from another world; extraterrestrial: "alien beings" Similar extraterrestrialother-worldlyunearthlyMartianVenutianJovianOpposite earthly

   noun

   • 1. a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where he or she is living: "an enemy alien" Similar foreignerforeign nationalnon-nativeimmigrantemigrantémigréincomernewcomervisitoroutsiderstrangerOpposite native
   • ▪ a plant or animal species originally introduced from another country and later naturalized.
   • 2. a hypothetical or fictional being from another world: "she discovers that the alien's spaceship has crashed" Similar extraterrestrialETMartianVenutianJovianinformal:little green man

   Word Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. alienness noun

   Scrabble Points: 5

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   adjective. unlike one's own; strange; not belonging to one: In English class, our teacher treated all slang as alien speech. Synonyms: nonnative, incompatible, inimical, averse, antagonistic, foreign, unknown, unfamiliar, exotic.

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   ALIEN definition: 1. strange and not familiar: 2. relating to creatures from another planet: 3. a creature from…. Learn more.

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   relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world. noun. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country. synonyms: foreigner, noncitizen, outlander. see more. noun. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found. synonyms: stranger, unknown.