Alien
['eɪlɪən] or [ˈeliən,ˈeljən]
Definition
(verb.) transfer property or ownership; 'The will aliened the property to the heirs'.
(adj.) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; 'alien customs'; 'exotic plants in a greenhouse'; 'exotic cuisine' .
(adj.) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; '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' .
Checked by Edwin--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
Typist: Preston
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Foreign, not native.[2]. Estranged, differing, remote, unallied, separated, unconnected.
n. Foreigner, stranger.
Checker: Walter
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Foreign, strange, undomesticated, inappropriate, irrelevant, impertinent
ANT:Pertinent, essential, proper, appropriate, relevant, germane, {[afcin]?},apropos, naturalized
Typist: Wolfgang
Definition
adj. foreign: different in nature: adverse to.—n. one belonging to another country: one not entitled to the rights of citizenship.—n. Al′ienage state of being an alien.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a stranger pleasing you, denotes good health and pleasant surroundings; if he displeases you, look for disappointments. To dream you are an alien, denotes abiding friendships.
Editor: Tracy
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
Checker: Nathan
Examples
- You are no child that one should not speak of what exists; but I only uttered the word--the thing, I assure you, is alien to my whole life and views. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In Britain, England carried on her back the Hanoverian dominions in Germany, Scotland, the profoundly alien Welsh and the hostile and Catholic Irish. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To those of my own house I am no alien, which I am to these English clowns. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not merely for its general ideas and their artistic presentation but for its models of law it went to the records of alien peoples. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A small band of alien herdsmen, says Sir Mark Sykes, wandering unchecked through crusades and counter-crusades, principalities, empires, and states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She opened her eyes and saw the streets passing--the familiar alien streets. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Let me hear you say, in the voice natural to you, and not in that alien tone, 'Mon ami, je vous pardonne. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Under such conditions, men take revenge, as it were, upon the alien and hostile environment by cultivating contempt for it, by giving it a bad name. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Greeks never loved Nature in her grandest moods, and—saving ?schylus—both shaggy mountain and roaring waters were alien to their genius. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The lad is a mak' of an alien amang us. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thus will Dejah Thoris die, and her fate will be sealed by the first alien foot that crosses the threshold of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Such men regarded alien populations abroad merely as unimported slaves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And I do not want a stranger--unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kindred: those with whom I have full fellow- feeling. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Greek achievement in civilization was native; the civilization of the Alexandrians and Romans was inherited from alien sources. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In their own estimation they were aliens in the country which had given them birth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That savage tribes regard aliens and enemies as synonymous is not accidental. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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