Alien Definition–noun | 1. | a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization (distinguished from
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citizen ). | | 3. | a person who has been estranged or excluded. | | 4. | a creature from outer space; extraterrestrial. | –adjective | 5. | residing under a government or in a country other than that of one's birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there. | | 6. | belonging or relating to aliens: alien property. | | 7. | unlike one's own; strange; not belonging to one: alien speech. | | 8. | adverse; hostile; opposed (usually fol. by to or from): ideas alien to modern thinking. | |
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