alien

• alyaunte (15th-16th centuries)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.ən/

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alien (plural aliens)

1. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
2. A foreigner residing in a country.
   • 1773, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, fifth edition, page 372:

     An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.

   • 1831, John Marshall, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, U.S. Government:

     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.

   • 1987, “Englishman in New York”, in …Nothing Like the Sun, performed by Sting:

     I'm an alien I'm a legal alien / I'm an Englishman in New York

   • 2004, Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice, Destiny Image Publishers, page 74:

     Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.

3. Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.
4. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
   • Bible, Ephes. ii. 12

     Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.

• fremd (rare, chiefly dialectal)
• See also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial

• alienage
• alienish
• alienlike
• space alien

alien (comparative more alien, superlative most alien)

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

   alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores

2. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

   principles alien to our religion

   • (Can we date this quote?), Wordsworth, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     An alien sound of melancholy.

3. Pertaining to extraterrestrial life.

alien (third-person singular simple present aliens, present participle aliening, simple past and past participle aliened)

1. (transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
2. (law) To transfer the ownership of something.

• aliene

• A-line, Aline, Elian, Elina, Nelia, aline, anile, elain, laine, liane, linea

alien

1. third-person plural present indicative form of aliar

• IPA^(key): /a.ljɛ̃/

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alien m (plural aliens)

1. alien (extraterrestrial)

From Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus. Some forms (chiefly nominal) show assimilation to the suffix -ant.

• alyon, alean, alyen, aliand, aliaund, aliant, alyant

• IPA^(key): /aːliˈɛːn/, /ˈaːliɛn/, /ˈaːliən/
• (with assimilation) IPA^(key): /ˈaːliant/, /ˈaːliau̯nt/

alien (plural aliens)

1. An outsider or foreign person, especially one who is resident in one's nation.
2. One who is alien in some other way (e.g. religion, family)
3. (rare) An unlawful occupier or possessor of land.

• alienat
• alienacioun
• alienen
• alienyng

• English: alien
• Scots: alien, awlien

• “āliē̆n (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-25.

alien (inflected form aliene)

1. Outside, alien, foreign; from or relating to another nation.
2. Religiously outside; heretical, erring; of false religion or morals.
3. Distant, isolated, secure, away (from something)
4. (rare) Under the authority of other nation's religious institutions.
5. (rare) Not relating to or of oneself; not natural (to one's body).
6. (rare) Bizarre, weird, exotic.

• English: alien
• Scots: alien, awlien

• “āliēn, ālien (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-25.

From Old French alier.

alien

1. Alternative form of allien

From Latin aliēnus.

alien m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aliene)

1. alien; foreign; non-native
   • 11th century, La Vie de Saint Alexis, BNF manuscript 19525

     alienes terres

     foreign lands

alien m (oblique plural aliens, nominative singular aliens, nominative plural alien)

1. alien (a non-native)

From English alien (“extraterrestrial life form”), from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“foreign”), from alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.ẽj̃/

alien m (plural aliens)

1. alien; extraterrestrial life form

• ET, extraterrestre, alienígena