alien
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
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.
Inflected forms:
form: aliens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alyaunte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more alien
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most alien
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: alyaunte
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: aliens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aliening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aliened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aliened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: aliene
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: alyaunte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
pos: noun
examples: An animated film intended to inform travellers about the dangers that alien species present to Arctic ecosystems is being released today. The message is that it is important to ensure that nobody accidentally brings alien species with them as stowaways in their clothing, baggage or equipment.
gloss: A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
pos: noun
examples: An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
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.
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
 I'm an Englishman in New York
Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.
gloss: A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
gloss: Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
pos: noun
examples: […]aliens from the common wealth of Iſrael[…]
The One Who, in this marvellous utterance, brings those who were by nature aliens and enemies of God into intimate and holy relations with God the Father, is the very One Who had to come to offer that Sacrifice without which such relationship would have been forever an impossibility; without which there would have been nothing for the best of men but death and judgment and the lake of fire.
gloss: Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
pos: adj
examples: alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
gloss: Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
pos: adj
examples: principles alien to our religion
An alien sound of melancholy.
gloss: Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
pos: adj
examples: It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.]
gloss: To estrange; to alienate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To transfer the ownership of something.
pos: verb
Synonyms: outlander
Derived words: alien abduction
alienage
alien hand syndrome
alienish
alienlike
alien nucleic acid
alien prior
alien priory
alien reproduction vehicle
aliensdidit
alien space bats
alien species
ancient alien
casual alien
ego alien
grey alien
gray alien
illegal alien
Nordic alien
resident alien
space alien
undocumented alien
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