alien
English
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Alternative forms
- alyaunte (15th-16th centuries)
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
alien (plural aliens)
- 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.
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- 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.
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- Bible, Ephes. ii. 12
- Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.
- Bible, Ephes. ii. 12
Synonyms
- (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
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
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- An alien sound of melancholy.
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life.
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Verb
alien (third-person singular simple present aliens, present participle aliening, simple past and past participle aliened)
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Catalan
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Verb
alien
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
alien m (plural aliens)
- alien (extraterrestrial)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus. Some forms (chiefly nominal) show assimilation to the suffix -ant.
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Pronunciation
Noun
alien (plural aliens)
- An outsider or foreign person, especially one who is resident in one's nation.
- One who is alien in some other way (e.g. religion, family)
- (rare) An unlawful occupier or possessor of land.
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Descendants
References
- “āliē̆n (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-25.
Adjective
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.
Descendants
References
- “āliēn, ālien (adj.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-25.
Etymology 2
From Old French alier.
Verb
alien
- Alternative form of allien
Old French
Etymology
Adjective
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
Declension
Noun
alien oblique singular, m (oblique plural aliens, nominative singular aliens, nominative plural alien)
- alien (a non-native)
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
From English alien (“extraterrestrial life form”), from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“foreign”), from alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.
Pronunciation
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Noun
alien m (invariable)
- alien; extraterrestrial life form
- Synonyms: alienígena, ET, extraterrestre
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