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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 Middle English outlawe, outlagh, utla?e, from Old English ?tlaga (“outlaw”), borrowed from Old Norse útlagi (“outlaw, fugitive”), equivalent to out- +? law. Cognate with Icelandic útlagi (“outlaw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?tl??/

Noun

outlaw (plural outlaws)

1. A fugitive from the law.
2. (historical) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
3. A person who operates outside established norms.

4. A wild horse.
5. (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
6. (humorous) One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
7. (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
   • 1977, Joseph Julian, Social Problems (page 463)

     Without a pimp, she was an "outlaw," likely to be harassed, or threatened with assault or robbery on the street.

   • 2010, Lawrence Block, Eight Million Ways To Die

     She was an outlaw. Chance is doing some double-checking to see if she had a pimp nobody knew about, but it doesn't look likely.

Synonyms

• (fugitive): absconder, fugitive
• (criminal): bandit, wolfshead
• (person who operates outside established norms): anti-hero, deviant

Hypernyms

• (criminal): See Thesaurus:criminal
• (prostitute): See Thesaurus:prostitute

Translations

Verb

outlaw (third-person singular simple present outlaws, present participle outlawing, simple past and past participle outlawed)

1. To declare illegal.
2. To place a ban upon.
3. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.

4. To deprive of legal force.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     our English common law was outlawed in those parts.

See also

• criminalize
• felonize
• misdemeanorize

Translations

Further reading

• outlaw in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• outlaw in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• outlaw at OneLook Dictionary Search