Alien

ahd-5
  • adjective. Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign.
  • adjective. Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange. synonym: foreign.
  • adjective. Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature.
  • noun. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country.
  • noun. A person from another and very different family, people, or place.
  • noun. A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.
  • noun. A creature from outer space.
  • noun. An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.
  • transitive verb. To transfer (property) to another; alienate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Residing under another government or in another country than that of one's birth, and not having rights of citizenship in such place of residence: as, the alien population; an alien condition.
  • Foreign; not belonging to one's own nation.
  • Wholly different in nature; estranged; adverse; hostile: used with to or from.
  • noun. A foreigner; one born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization; one who is not a denizen, or entitled to the privileges of a citizen. In France a child born of residents who are not citizens is an alien.
  • noun. A stranger.
  • noun. An English statute of 1836 (6 and 7 Wm. IV. c. 11) providing for the registration of aliens; and one of 1844 (7 and 8 Vict. c. 66) allowing aliens from friendly nations to hold real and personal property for purposes of residence, and resident aliens to become naturalized.
  • noun. An English statute of 1847 (10 and 11 Vict. c. 83) concerning naturalization.
  • To transfer or convey to another; make over the possession of: as, to alien a title or property. In this sense also written aliene.
  • To make averse or indifferent; turn the affections or inclinations of; alienate; estrange.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
  • adjective. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to.
  • adjective. one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours.
  • transitive verb. To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
  • noun. A foreigner residing in a country.
  • noun. Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.
  • adjective. Pertaining to an alien.
  • adjective. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
  • verb. To estrange; to alienate.
  • verb. To transfer the ownership of something.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
  • adjective. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
  • adjective. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
  • verb. transfer property or ownership
  • noun. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
  • verb. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
  • noun. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
  • Word Usage
    "FACT: United States Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, Section 1324a, states: “It is unlawful for a person or other entity to hire for employment in the United States, an alien, knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien…"
    Equivalent
    has_topic
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    human  new  powerful  strange  unknown  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    alienage  
    verb-form
    aliened  aliening  aliens