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Another word for alien

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Adjective

  1. Of, from, or characteristic of another place or part of the world

    See also:

    native

  2. Not part of the essential nature of a thing

    See also:

    native

Noun

  1. A person coming from another country or into a new community

    See also:

    native

Verb

  1. To change the ownership of (property) by means of a legal document

    See also:

    law

    give

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Another word for alien

Modifier

  1. Of foreign extraction

    See also:

    foreign

  2. Unlike

    See also:

    foreign

    See syn. study at

    unusual

    repugnant

Noun
  1. Antonyms:

Synonym Study

  • ?émigré, to a citizen of one country who has left it to take political refuge in another
  • Immigrant , to a person who comes to another country to settle
  • Stranger , to a person from another region who is unacquainted with local people, customs, etc.
  • Foreigner , to a visitor or resident from another country, esp. one with a different language, cultural pattern, etc.
  • Alien is applied to a resident who bears political allegiance to another country
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Sentence Examples

  • His face looked pale and he rode with an alien stiffness.

  • On the 5th of March 1440-1441, the king endowed the college out of alien priories with some scpc, a year, almost exactly the amount of the original endowment of Winchester.

  • The deaf child who has only the sign language of De l'Epee is an intellectual Philip Nolan, an alien from all races, and his thoughts are not the thoughts of an Englishman, or a Frenchman, or a Spaniard.

  • At this period they controlled more of the foreign and colonial trade than all the other alien merchants in London put together.

  • It seems so alien to his nature.

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