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Definition of Alien

1. Noun. A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country.

2. Adjective. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something. "Jealousy is foreign to her nature"

3. Verb. Transfer property or ownership. "The will aliened the property to the heirs"

4. Noun. Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found.

5. Adjective. Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world. "Exotic cuisine"

6. Verb. Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness. "The performance is likely to alien Sue"; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"

7. Noun. A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere.

Definition of Alien

1. a. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

2. n. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

3. v. t. To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

Definition of Alien

1. Noun. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. ¹

2. Noun. A foreigner residing in a country. ¹

3. Noun. Any life form of extraterrestrial origin. ¹

4. Adjective. Pertaining to an alien. ¹

5. Adjective. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To estrange; to alienate. ¹

7. Verb. (legal) To transfer the ownership of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alien

1. to transfer to another, as property [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alien

alibis alible alicant alicants alickadoo alickadoos alicorn alicycle alicyclic alicyclic compound

alicyclic compounds alidad alidade alidades alidads alien (current term) alien abduction alien absconder alien nucleic acid alienabilities

alienability alienable alienably alienage alienages alienans alienate alienated alienatedly alienates

Literary usage of Alien

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Among other reasons, which might be given for our constitution, it seems to be intended by way of punishment for the alien's presumption, in attempting to ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Missouri law ал to alien»—intention to become citizen—law not retrospective. ... The Act of 1855, of that State, declared that an alien who did not reside ..."

3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William Hardcastle Browne (1894)
"Title of an alien to Real Estate. An alien cannot acquire a title to real ... The law never casts the freehold upon an alien heir, who cannot keep it. ..."

4. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"but also of the relations which ants have acquired to many kinds of alien organisms. In the accompanying diagram (Fig. 65) I have endeavored to indicate how ..."

5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"aliens coming to dwell in the United * While the alien Bill was pending, ... Occasioned by the alien Bill, now before the Senate, May 16, 1798. ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson (1860)
"Now, it is understood to be a general rule, that when an alien is allowed specially by statute, to take and hold lands to him and his heirs, ..."

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