alien
noun
- Converter between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and Slackware tgz file formats
- person in a country not having citizenship
- lifeform that does not originate from Earth
adjective
- being foreign, unfamiliar, fundamentally different
verb
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L330773 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.li.ən/ / /ˈeɪ.ljən/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
“alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores”
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
“principles alien to our religion”
“An alien sound of melancholy.”
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
“It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.]”
name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 阿蓮 (Ālián) Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-lien².
- Alternative form of Alian.
“Premier Chiang Ching-kuo traveled to Alien village in Kaohsiung county May 23 to inspect the Chung-chou No. 3 oilwell prospect of Chinese Petroleum Corporation.”
“A woman holds up two bowls containing eggs at a press conference in Taipei yesterday. The left contains a regular egg, while the other bowl is an SGS-certified egg from Taiwan’s first company to use humanely raised egg-laying hens from Europe, the Shih An Farm in Greater Kaohsiung’s Alien District.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.
- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
“An animated film intended to inform travellers about the dangers that alien species present to Arctic ecosystems is being released today. The message is that it is important to ensure that nobody accidentally brings alien species with them as stowaways in their clothing, baggage or equipment.”
- A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
“An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.”
“The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens, not owing allegiance to the United States.”
- A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
“You might not have much use for me. You spend too much time with the damn aliens, pretending your time in the gangs back on Earth never happened. I know you weren't happy when I found you at the Citadel a couple years back. But I'm glad you're on this. I hope you find whoever took my people on Freedom's Progress and kick their scaly asses. I'm glad it's a human finding these bastards.”
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
“[…]aliens from the common wealth of Iſrael[…]”
“The One Who, in this marvellous utterance, brings those who were by nature aliens and enemies of God into intimate and holy relations with God the Father, is the very One Who had to come to offer that Sacrifice without which such relationship would have been forever an impossibility; without which there would have been nothing for the best of men but death and judgment and the lake of fire.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.
- To estrange; to alienate.
- To transfer the ownership of something.