alien

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alien/ˈeɪliən/
adjective
  • 1 belonging to a foreign country.

    ■ (of a plant or animal species) introduced from another country and later naturalized.

  • 2 unfamiliar and distasteful.
  • 3 relating to or denoting beings from other worlds.
noun
  • 1 a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living.

    ■ an alien plant or animal species.

  • 2 a being from another world.
– derivatives
alienage noun,
alienness noun.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other’.
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