noun
- A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country.
- synonyms: foreigner, noncitizen, outlander
- Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found.
- A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere.
- synonyms: extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial
verb
- Transfer property or ownership.
- usage: "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
- synonyms: alienate
- Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness.
- usage: "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
adjective
- Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
- usage: "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
- synonyms: foreign
- Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
- usage: "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
- synonyms: exotic
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