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Word: Alien
Speech Type: Adjective
Middle English: via Old French from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other’
ˈeɪlɪən
belonging to a foreign country
Short Definition:foreign
Examples:- an alien culture
unfamiliar and disturbing or distasteful
Short Definition:strange
Examples:- principles that are alien to them
- they found the world of further education a little alien
supposedly from another world; extraterrestrial
Short Definition:from another world
Examples:- alien beings
- an alien spacecraft
Word: Alien
Speech Type: Noun
ˈeɪlɪən
a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where he or she is living
Short Definition:foreigner
Examples:- an enemy alien
a hypothetical or fictional being from another world
Short Definition:being from another world
Examples:- she discovers that the alien's spaceship has crashed
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