alien
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.
- 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.
alienage noun,
alienness noun.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other’.
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