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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

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