alien
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
Noun 4 meanings
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
Adjective 3 meanings
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
“alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores”
Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
“principles alien to our religion”
Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
Verb 2 meanings
To estrange; to alienate.
To transfer the ownership of something.
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.
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ALIEN at a glance
ALIEN has 5 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (A 1 + L 1 + I 1 + E 1 + N 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,265 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with alien
All rhymes- LIEN4
- BIEN6
- MIEN6
- SIEN4
- GIEN5
- ANTIALIEN9
- GYMNASIEN15
- VAURIEN10
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