alien

  • 51Alien 9 — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Alien 9. Alien Nine エイリアン9 (Eirian 9) Type Seinen Genre science fiction …

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  • 52alien — adj. & n. adj. 1 a (often foll. by to) unfamiliar; not in accordance or harmony; unfriendly, hostile; unacceptable or repugnant (army discipline was alien to him; struck an alien note). b (often foll. by from) different or separated. 2 foreign;… …

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  • 53alien — 1. noun /ˈeɪ.li.ən/ a) A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is… …

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  • 54Alien — Außerirdischer * * * Ali|en 〈[ ɛılıən] m. 6 oder n. 15〉 außerirdisches Lebewesen [engl.] * * * Ali|en [ eɪli̯ən ], der od. das; s, s [engl. alien = Ausländer, Fremder, Außenseiter; ausländisch, fremd < lat. alienus]: (bes. in Filmen, Romanen,… …

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  • 55alien — [14] The essential notion contained in alien is of ‘otherness’. Its ultimate source is Latin alius ‘other’ (which is related to English else). From this was formed a Latin adjective aliēnus ‘belonging to another person or place’, which passed… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 56alien — 1 adjective 1 belonging to another country or race; foreign (1): an alien culture 2 very different from what you are used to; strange (+ to): a way of life that is totally alien to us 3 (only before noun) connected with creatures from another… …

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  • 57alien — /eyl(i)yan/ A foreign born person who has not qualified as a citizen of the country; but an alien is a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause of the U.S. Constitution to same extent as a citizen. Galvan v. Press …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 58alien — /eyl(i)yan/ A foreign born person who has not qualified as a citizen of the country; but an alien is a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause of the U.S. Constitution to same extent as a citizen. Galvan v. Press …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 59alien — [14] The essential notion contained in alien is of ‘otherness’. Its ultimate source is Latin alius ‘other’ (which is related to English else). From this was formed a Latin adjective aliēnus ‘belonging to another person or place’, which passed… …

    Word origins

  • 60alien — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. foreign, strange. n. foreigner, stranger, immigrant. See unconformity, exterior.Ant., alike, native. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Of foreign extraction] Syn. exotic, strange, unknown; see foreign 1 ,… …

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