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al⋅ien

[eyl-yuh

n, ey-lee-uh

–noun

1.	a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization (distinguished from citizen ).

2.	a foreigner.

3.	a person who has been estranged or excluded.

4.	a creature from outer space; extraterrestrial.

–adjective

5.	residing under a government or in a country other than that of one's birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there.

6.	belonging or relating to aliens: alien property.

7.	unlike one's own; strange; not belonging to one: alien speech.

8.	adverse; hostile; opposed (usually fol. by to or from): ideas alien to modern thinking.

9.	extraterrestrial.

Origin:
1300–50; ME < MF < L aliēnus, equiv. to *alies- (ali-, base of alius other + -es- n. suffix) + -nus adj. suffix

Synonyms:
1. immigrant. 2. See stranger. 3. outcast. 7. exotic, foreign.

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a·li·en (ā'lē-ən, āl'yən)

adj.

Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign: alien residents.
Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange. See Synonyms at foreign.
Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature: emotions alien to her temperament.

An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen.
A person from another and very different family, people, or place.
A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.
A creature from outer space: a story about an invasion of aliens.
Ecology An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.

tr.v. a·li·ened, a·li·en·ing, a·li·ens Law
To transfer (property) to another; alienate.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin aliēnus, from alius, other; see al-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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Alien

Al"ien\, a. [OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another; properly, therefore, belonging to another. See Else.]

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

2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.

An alien sound of melancholy. --Wordsworth.

Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. --Abbott.

Alien

Al"ien\, n. 1. 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.

2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. --Ephes. ii. 12.

Alien

Al"ien\, v. t. [F. ali['e]ner, L. alienare.] To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] "It the son alien lands." --Sir M. Hale.

The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. --Clarendon.

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Language Translation for : Alien

Spanish: extraño, extranjero, foráneo,

German: fremd,

Japanese: 外国の

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alien (adj.)

1340, "strange, foreign," from O.Fr. alien, from L. alienus "of or belonging to another," adj. form of alius "(an)other" (see alias). Meaning "of another planet" first recorded 1944 in science fiction writing; the noun in this sense is from 1953. The noun sense of "foreigner" is first attested 1330. An alien priory (1502) is one owing obedience to a mother abbey in a foreign country.

Alien

Any person who is not a citizen of the country in which he or she lives.

Investopedia Commentary

Aliens are not given the same rights as the citizens of the country in which they live.

Main Entry: ¹alien
Pronunciation: 'A-lE-&n, 'Al-y&n
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin alienus not one's own, foreign
: relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government

Main Entry: ²alien
Function: noun
: a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country aliens> alien admitted to the United States for permanent residence —U.S. Code>

Main Entry: ³alien
Function: transitive verb
: ALIENATE

alien (ā'lē-ən) Pronunciation Key
Introduced to a region deliberately or accidentally by humans. Starlings, German cockroaches, and dandelions are species that are alien to North America but have become widely naturalized in the continent. Compare endemic , indigenous.

Alien

a foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens. (1.) Those who were strangers generally, and who owned no landed property. (2.) Strangers dwelling in another country without being naturalized (Lev. 22:10; Ps. 39:12). Both of these classes were to enjoy, under certain conditions, the same rights as other citizens (Lev. 19:33, 34; Deut. 10:19). They might be naturalized and permitted to enter into the congregation of the Lord by submitting to circumcision and abandoning idolatry (Deut. 23:3-8). This term is used (Eph. 2:12) to denote persons who have no interest in Christ.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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