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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 saucer, from Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere; hence modern French saucier m, saucière f).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.s?/
• Rhymes: -??s?(r)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?.s??/, /?s?.s??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?s?.s??/

Noun

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
2. An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer).

3. (obsolete) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

   • Take two saucers , and strike the edge of the one against the bottom of the other , within a pail of water ; and you shall find , that as you put the saucers lower and lower , the sound groweth more flat

4. A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
5. A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

Related terms

• flying saucer
• sauce
• saucer eyes

Translations

Verb

saucer (third-person singular simple present saucers, present participle saucering, simple past and past participle saucered)

1. (transitive) To pour (tea, etc.) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.

Anagrams

• SACEUR, Surace, causer, cesura

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sauser, sawcer, sawcere, sawser, sawsere, sawcyr, sawsyr, sawsser

Etymology

From Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere); equivalent to sauce +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sau?s?r(?)/

Noun

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small receptacle or bowl for storing sauce in.
2. A small plate, bowl, or dish; a saucer.

Descendants

• English: saucer
• Scots: saucer

References

• “saucer(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.