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English

Alternative forms

• alyaunte (15th-16th centuries)

Etymology

From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin ali?nus (“belonging to someone else, later exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?élyos. Related to English else.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.li.?n/

Noun

alien (plural aliens)

1. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
2. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
3. A foreigner residing in a country.
4. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

Synonyms

• (person, etc. from outside): fremd (rare, chiefly dialectal), guest, stranger
• (foreigner): outlander; see also Thesaurus:foreigner
• (life form of extraterrestrial origin): See also Thesaurus:extraterrestrial

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

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.

2. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
   • 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude

     An alien sound of melancholy.

3. Pertaining to extraterrestrial life.

Synonyms

• allotrious

Translations

Verb

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

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

Alternative forms

• aliene

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??li.?n/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?li.en/

Verb

alien

1. third-person plural present indicative form of aliar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English alien (“stranger, foreigner”), from Middle English alien, from Old French alien, from Latin ali?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.li.?n/
• Hyphenation: ali?en

Noun

alien m (plural aliens)

1. An alien, an extraterrestrial.

   Synonym: ruimtewezen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lj?n/

Noun

alien m (plural aliens)

1. alien (extraterrestrial)

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?li???n/, /?a?li?n/, /?a?li?n/
• (with assimilation) IPA^(key): /?a?liant/, /?a?liau?nt/

Noun

alien (plural aliens)

1. An outsider or foreign person, especially if 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.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: alien
• Scots: alien, awlien

References

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

Adjective

alien (plural and weak singular 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.

Descendants

• English: alien
• Scots: alien, awlien

References

• “?li?n, ?lien, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-25.

Etymology 2

From Old French alier.

Verb

alien

1. Alternative form of allien

Old French

Etymology

From Latin ali?nus.

Adjective

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

Declension

Noun

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

1. alien (a non-native)

Declension

Descendants

• ? Middle English: alien, alyon, alean, alyen, aliand, aliaund, aliant, alyant
  • English: alien
  • Scots: alien, awlien

Portuguese

Etymology

From English alien (“extraterrestrial life form”), from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin ali?nus (“foreign”), from alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?élyos. Doublet of alheio.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.li.?j?/

Noun

alien m (plural aliens)

1. alien; extraterrestrial life form

   Synonyms: alienígena, ET, extraterrestre

English

Etymology

From Latin adventicius (“foreign”), from adveni? (“arrive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd.v?n?t??.?s/, /?æd.v?n?t??.?s/
• (Northern California)

Adjective

adventitious (comparative more adventitious, superlative most adventitious)

1. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
2. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:

     The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.

3. (genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
4. (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
   • 1985, R. M. T. Dahlgren, H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons, page 101

     The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;

Synonyms

• (from an external source): extrinsic
• (accidental, additional): accidental, spontaneous, sporadic; see also Thesaurus:accidental
• (not congenital): acquired

Derived terms

• adventitiously
• adventitiousness

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