alien

Meanings

Noun

Adjective

  • Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
  • Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
  • Pertaining to extraterrestrial life.

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Origin

  • From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus, from Latin alius, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.

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