alien

About 9.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
2. noun A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
3. noun (Can we verify this sense?) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
4. noun Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
5. noun One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
6. adjective Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

   alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores

7. adjective Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

   principles alien to our religion

8. adjective Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.

Similar words

extraterrestrial extrinsic foreign foreigner exotic outlander noncitizen disaffect estrange alienate

Often followed by

to and in is who from land or culture

Word family

aliened aliening alienly alienness aliennesses aliens