[ˈeɪlɪən], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- belonging to a foreign country
(e.g: an alien culture)

- unfamiliar and disturbing or distasteful
(e.g: principles that are alien to them)

- supposedly from another world; extraterrestrial
(e.g: alien beings)


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Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other’

[ˈeɪlɪən], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where he or she is living
(e.g: an enemy alien)

- a hypothetical or fictional being from another world
(e.g: she discovers that the alien's spaceship has crashed)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other’