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alien

noun
/ˈeɪ.li.ən/

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.

  1. derived from *h₂élyos✻
  2. derived from alius — “other”
  3. derived from aliēnus — “belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”
  4. derived from alien
  5. inherited from alien

Definitions

  1. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group,…

    A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

  2. A citizen or national of another sovereign state.

    • An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
    • The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens, not owing allegiance to the United States.
    • I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York

  3. A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.

    2. One excluded from certain privileges

      One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

      • […]aliens from the common wealth of Iſrael[…]

    3. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects…

      Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

      • alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores

    4. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

      • principles alien to our religion
      • An alien sound of melancholy.

    5. Pertaining to extraterrestrial life

      Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.

      • It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.]

    6. To estrange

      To estrange; to alienate.

    7. To transfer the ownership of something.

    8. Alternative form of Alian.

      • Premier Chiang Ching-kuo traveled to Alien village in Kaohsiung county May 23 to inspect the Chung-chou No. 3 oilwell prospect of Chinese Petroleum Corporation.

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Derived

alien abduction, alienage, alien hand syndrome, alienish, alienlike, alien nucleic acid, alien prior, alien priory, alien reproduction vehicle, aliensdidit, alien space bats, alien species, ancient alien, casual alien, ego alien, grey alien, gray alien, illegal alien, Nordic alien, resident alien, space alien, undocumented alien

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at alien. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at alien. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at alien

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA