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Adjective
/ˈālyən/,/ˈālēən/,
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Belonging to a foreign country or nation,
  1. Belonging to a foreign country or nation

  2. Unfamiliar and disturbing or distasteful
    • - bossing anyone around was alien to him
    • - they found the world of adult education a little alien
  3. Relating to or denoting beings supposedly from other worlds; extraterrestrial
    • - an alien spacecraft
  4. (of a plant or animal species) Introduced from another country and later naturalized

Noun
  1. A foreigner, esp. one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living
    • - an illegal alien
  2. A hypothetical or fictional being from another world

  3. A plant or animal species originally introduced from another country and later naturalized


  1. foreigner: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
  2. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
  3. transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
  4. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
  5. estrange: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
  6. stranger: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
  7. Alien is the fourth album by Canadian extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad. It was released on March 22, 2005. The album was written by Devin Townsend and Gene Hoglan over a 6 month time period.
  8. AliEn is a lightweight Grid framework developed by CERN. It is built around Open Source components using the combination of Web Service and distributed agent model. ...
  9. This is a chronological list of games in the Alien and Predator science fiction franchises. There have been thirty-seven officially licensed video games, one trading card game, and one tabletop miniatures game released based on the franchises.
  10. Alien is a Swedish rock band formed in Gothenburg in 1986 by guitarist Tony Borg and vocalist Jim Jidhed. They are best known today for their single "Only One Woman", a cover of a Marbles song, and "Brave New Love", which was featured in the 1988 movie The Blob.
  11. An introduced, neozoon, alien, exoti, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental. ...
  12. Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. ...
  13. 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; Any life form of extraterrestrial origin; To estrange; to alienate; To transfer the ownership of something; Pertaining to an alien ...
  14. (alienly) In an alien manner
  15. (Aliens) Foreign-born persons who have not been naturalized to become U.S. citizens under federal law and the Constitution.
  16. (Aliens) Visitors from other planets. We differentiate aliens from visitors that might live in parallel worlds, the Otherworld, or what’s generally characterized as the afterlife.
  17. (ALIENS) Many of these have been spotted in various episodes, the most common being Kang & Kodos. One alien caused so much of a stir that X-Files stars Mulder and Scully were called.
  18. (Aliens) "[unless such extraterrestrials] arrived a long time ago and thus classify as residents."
  19. (Aliens) ( SciFi Leading Edge Games [HP] OOP B. Nakazono¸ D. McKenzie )
  20. (Aliens) Creatures or beings that come from other planets, galaxies, universes or even a different dimension. Sometimes referred to as extra-terrestrials.
  21. (Aliens) Sweet little green beings that Pocoyo finds in space in search of his toy plane.
  22. (Aliens) There are many intelligent extraterrestrial races as well. Curiously, a large number of them are humanoid, even human-like, in form; some can even interbreed with Earth humans. ...
  23. (Aliens) To dream of aliens indicates your curiosity about something you are not sure exists but you fantasize what they may be like.  A fearful dream about aliens obviously indicates your fear of them. ...
  24. (Aliens) Usually the name applied to inhabitants of UFOs
  25. (aliens) Daniel Weber on Fotopedia