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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

Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin ex?ticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ex?tikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ???- (ex?-, “outside”), from ?? (ex, “out of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???z?t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???z?t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

exotic (comparative more exotic, superlative most exotic)

1. Foreign, especially in an exciting way.

   • Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
2. Non-native to the ecosystem.
3. (finance) Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.

Derived terms

Related terms

• exotica

Translations

Noun

exotic (plural exotics)

1. (biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
   • c.1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys

     There were a few exotics among them — some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a Siamese prince, or someone who was described as a prince.

2. An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
3. (physics) Any exotic particle.

Derived terms

• invasive exotic

Translations

Further reading

• Exotic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Exotic in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• coxite, excito-

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ex?ticus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

exotic m (feminine singular exotica, masculine plural exotics, feminine plural exoticas)

1. exotic

Romanian

Etymology

From French exotique, from Latin exoticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??zo.tik/

Adjective

exotic m or n (feminine singular exotic?, masculine plural exotici, feminine and neuter plural exotice)

1. exotic

Declension