'Alien' definitions:
Definition of 'alien'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: alien, foreign]
adjective
Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: alien, exotic]
noun
A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country [syn: foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander] [ant: citizen]
noun
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found [syn: stranger, alien, unknown] [ant: acquaintance, friend]
noun
A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere [syn: extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial, alien]
verb
Transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs" [syn: alien, alienate]
verb
Definition of 'alien'
From: Easton
- Alien a foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens.
- Those who were strangers generally, and who owned no landed property.
- Strangers dwelling in another country without being naturalized (Lev. 22:10; Ps. 39:12).
- Both of these classes were to enjoy, under certain conditions, the same rights as other citizens (Lev. 19:33, 34; Deut. 10:19). They might be naturalized and permitted to enter into the congregation of the Lord by submitting to circumcision and abandoning idolatry (Deut. 23:3-8).
- This term is used (Eph. 2:12) to denote persons who have no interest in Christ.
Synonyms of 'alien'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienate,
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- alienate,
- alter,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- apart,
- apartheid,
- assign,
- astronaut,
- auslander,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- case,
- cede,
- change,
- character,
- clashing,
- color bar,
- competitive,
- con,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- convert,
- convey,
- cosmonaut,
- counter,
- crackpot,
- crank,
- cross,
- deed,
- deracine,
- detached,
- disaccordant,
- disaffect,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- disjunct,
- displaced person,
- disrelated,
- dissentient,
- dissociated,
- disunify,
- disunite,
- division,
- eccentric,
- emigre,
- enemy,
- ethnocentrism,
- exclusiveness,
- exile,
- exotic,
- exterior,
- external,
- exterrestrial,
- exterritorial,
- extragalactic,
- extralateral,
- extraliminal,
- extramundane,
- extramural,
- extraneous,
- extrapolar,
- extraprovincial,
- extrasolar,
- extraterrene,
- extraterrestrial,
- extraterritorial,
- extratribal,
- extrinsic,
- fanatic,
- foreign,
- foreign devil,
- foreign-born,
- foreigner,
- fractious,
- give up,
- gringo,
- hand over,
- hermit,
- hobo,
- hostile,
- immigrant,
- incommensurable,
- incomparable,
- incompatible,
- incongruous,
- inconsonant,
- independent,
- inimical,
- insular,
- insularity,
- insulation,
- intrusive,
- irrelative,
- isolated,
- isolation,
- Jim Crow,
- know-nothingism,
- kook,
- lone wolf,
- loner,
- make over,
- man from Mars,
- Martian,
- maverick,
- meshuggenah,
- narrowness,
- natural,
- negative,
- newcomer,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- nut,
- obstinate,
- odd fellow,
- oddball,
- oddity,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- original,
- other,
- otherworldly,
- out-group,
- outcast,
- outland,
- outlander,
- outlandish,
- outlaw,
- outside,
- outsider,
- overthwart,
- pariah,
- parochialism,
- persona non grata,
- perverse,
- planetary colony,
- quarantine,
- queer duck,
- queer fish,
- queer specimen,
- race hatred,
- racial segregation,
- rara avis,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- refugee,
- relinquish,
- remise,
- removed,
- repugnant,
- rival,
- rocket man,
- rocketeer,
- screwball,
- seclusion,
- segregate,
- segregation,
- separate,
- separated,
- separation,
- sign over,
- snobbishness,
- solitary,
- space,
- space crew,
- space traveler,
- spaceman,
- strange,
- stranger,
- the Wandering Jew,
- tightness,
- tramontane,
- tramp,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- type,
- Uitlander,
- ulterior,
- ultramontane,
- unaffiliated,
- unallied,
- unassociated,
- unconnected,
- uncooperative,
- unearthly,
- unfamiliar,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- unpropitious,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated,
- wanderer,
- wean,
- xenophobia,
- zealot