单词 | alien |
释义 | alien /ayl"yeuhn, ay"lee euhn/, n. 1. a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization (distinguished from citizen). 2. a foreigner. 3. a person who has been estranged or excluded. 4. a creature from outer space; extraterrestrial. adj. 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. 9. extraterrestrial. [1300-50; ME < MF < L alienus, equiv. to *alies- (ali-, base of alius other + -es- n. suffix) + -nus adj. suffix] Syn. 1. immigrant. 2. See stranger. 3. outcast. 7. exotic, foreign. |
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