- 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. Source: opted
- 2. a. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. Source: opted
- 3. 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. Source: opted
- 4. n. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies. Source: opted
- 5. v. t. To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. Source: opted
- 6. adj. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something Source: wordnet
- 7. adj. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world Source: wordnet
- 8. n. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country Source: wordnet
- 9. n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found Source: wordnet
- 10. n. a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere Source: wordnet
- 11. v. transfer property or ownership Source: wordnet
- 12. 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. 1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses 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. 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. Source: webster
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