alien

Noun
  1. A person who comes from a foreign country;
    Someone who does not owe allegiance to your country (synset 110123254)
    is a type of: traveler, traveller - a person who changes location
    subtypes:
    • au pair - a young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light housework
    • deportee, exile - a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
    • gringo - a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)
    • import, importee - an imported person brought from a foreign country
    • metic - an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city
    same as: foreigner, noncitizen, outlander
  2. Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found (synset 110680441)
    is a type of: interloper, intruder, trespasser - someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
    subtypes: foreigner, outsider - someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
    same as: stranger, unknown
  3. A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere (synset 109507595)
    is a type of: hypothetical creature - a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist
    same as: extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being
Adjective
  1. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something (synset 301352775)
    "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
    similar to: extrinsic - not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
    same as: foreign
  2. Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world (synset 301038689)
    "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
    similar to: foreign, strange - relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
    same as: exotic
Verb
  1. Transfer property or ownership (synset 202225792)
    "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
    is a type of: transfer - cause to change ownership
    same as: alienate

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