Definition/Meaning of alien

• English - Noun: alien ( plural aliens ) A person , animal , plant , or other thing which is from outside the family , group , organization , or territory under consideration . A foreigner residing in a country . 1773 , William Blackstone , Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books , Volume 1 (Fifth Edition) , page 372 An alien born may purchase lands , or other estates: but not for his own use; for the…
• English - Adjective: alien ( comparative more alien , superlative most alien ) Pertaining to an alien . 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 Wordsworth An alien sound of melancholy . Translations
• English - Verb: alien ( third-person singular simple present aliens , present participle aliening , simple past and past participle aliened ) ( transitive ) To estrange; to alienate . ( law ) To transfer the ownership of something . Alternative forms aliene
• English - Alternative forms: alyaunte ( 15th-16th centuries )
• English - Etymology: Old French alien , aliene , from Latin aliēnus ( “ belonging to someone else , later exotic , foreign ” ), from alius ( “ other ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos .