alien
1. a person who comes from a foreign country;
someone who does not owe allegiance to your country (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
foreigner, noncitizen, outlander
• Ant:
citizen (for: noncitizen)
• Hypernyms:
traveler, traveller
• Hyponyms:
au pair, exile, deportee, gringo, import,
importee, metic
2. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
• Syn:
stranger, unknown
• Ant:
acquaintance (for: stranger)
• Derivationally related forms:
unknown (for: unknown)
• Hypernyms:
intruder, interloper, trespasser
• Hyponyms:
foreigner, outsider
3. a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
• Syn:
extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial
• Derivationally related forms:
extraterrestrial (for: extraterrestrial)
• Hypernyms:
hypothetical creature
1. transfer property or ownership
- The will aliened the property to the heirs
• Syn:
alienate
• Derivationally related forms:
alienable (for: alienate)
• Hypernyms:
transfer
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
- She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious
• Syn:
estrange, alienate, disaffect
• Derivationally related forms:
disaffection (for: disaffect), alienator (for: alienate), estrangement (for: estrange)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
drift apart, drift away, wean
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
1. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something (Freq. 3)
- 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:
foreign
• Similar to:
extrinsic
• Derivationally related forms:
foreignness (for: foreign)
2. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world (Freq. 2)
- alien customs
- exotic plants in a greenhouse
- exotic cuisine
• Syn:
exotic
• Similar to:
foreign, strange
• Derivationally related forms:
exoticness (for: exotic)
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