alien
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- alyaunte (15th-16th centuries)
Etymology[edit]
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.
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Noun[edit]
alien (plural aliens)
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 865290061, PC, scene: Hello from the Reds:
- You might not have much use for me. You spend too much time with the damn aliens, pretending your time in the gangs back on Earth never happened. I know you weren't happy when I found you at the Citadel a couple years back.
But I'm glad you're on this. I hope you find whoever took my people on Freedom's Progress and kick their scaly asses. I'm glad it's a human finding these bastards.
- 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.
- 1773, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, fifth edition, page 372:
- An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
- 1831, John Marshall, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, U.S. Government:
- 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.
- 1987, “Englishman in New York”, in …Nothing Like the Sun, performed by Sting:
- I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
- 2004, Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice, Destiny Image Publishers, page 74:
- Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ephesians 2:12, column 2:
- […] aliens from the common wealth of Iſrael […]
Synonyms[edit]
- (person, etc. from outside): fremd (rare, chiefly dialectal), guest, stranger
- (foreigner): outlander; see also Thesaurus:foreigner
- (life form of extraterrestrial origin): See also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial
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Adjective[edit]
alien (comparative more alien, superlative most alien)
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- principles alien to our religion
- 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude
- An alien sound of melancholy.
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 8:
- It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.]
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Verb[edit]
alien (third-person singular simple present aliens, present participle aliening, simple past and past participle aliened)
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alien
- third-person plural present indicative form of aliar
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English alien (“stranger, foreigner”), from Middle English alien, from Old French alien, from Latin aliēnus.
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alien m (plural aliens)
- An alien, an extraterrestrial.
- Synonym: ruimtewezen
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English alien (“stranger, foreigner”), from Middle English alien, from Old French alien, from Latin aliēnus.
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alien m (plural aliens)
- alien (extraterrestrial)
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus. Some forms (chiefly nominal) show assimilation to the suffix -ant.
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alien (plural aliens)
- An outsider or foreign person, especially if resident in one's nation.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Joon 10:5, page 49v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- But þei ſuen not an alien · but fleen from hym .· foꝛ þei han not knowen þe vois of aliens
- But they don't follow a stranger; they'll flee from them instead, because they don't recognise strangers' voices.
- One who is alien in some other way (e.g. religion, family)
- (rare) An unlawful occupier or possessor of land.
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References[edit]
- “āliē̆n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-25.
Adjective[edit]
alien (plural and weak singular aliene)
- Outside, alien, foreign; from or relating to another nation.
- Religiously outside; heretical, erring; of false religion or morals.
- Distant, isolated, secure, away (from something)
- (rare) Under the authority of other nation's religious institutions.
- (rare) Not relating to or of oneself; not natural (to one's body).
- (rare) Bizarre, weird, exotic.
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References[edit]
- “āliēn, ālien, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-25.
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old French alier.
Verb[edit]
alien
- Alternative form of allien
Old French[edit]
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alien m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aliene)
- alien; foreign; non-native
- 11th century, La Vie de Saint Alexis, BNF manuscript 19525
- alienes terres
- foreign lands
- alienes terres
- 11th century, La Vie de Saint Alexis, BNF manuscript 19525
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alien m (oblique plural aliens, nominative singular aliens, nominative plural alien)
- alien (a non-native)
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Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English alien (“extraterrestrial life form”), from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“foreign”), from alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Doublet of alheio.
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alien m (plural aliens)
- alien; extraterrestrial life form
- Synonyms: alienígena, ET, extraterrestre
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- pt:Ufology