Definition of alien

"alien" in the noun sense

1. foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander

a person who comes from a foreign country someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

2. stranger, alien, unknown

anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

3. extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial, alien

a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere

"alien" in the verb sense

1. alien, alienate

transfer property or ownership

"The will aliened the property to the heirs"

"alien" in the adjective sense

1. alien, foreign

not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something

"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"

2. alien, exotic

being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world

"alien customs"

"exotic plants in a greenhouse"

"exotic cuisine"

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Quotations for alien

Dissimulation is alien to the open soul. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

I am a man, and I reckon nothing human alien to me. [ Ter ]

Here (in Italy) is ceaseless spring, and summer in months in which summer is alien. [ Virgil ]

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in those matters which affect our welfare. [ Manutius ]

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. [ Theodore Parker ]

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind. [ Lowell ]

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

alien in Scrabble®

The word alien is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Word Growth involving alien

Shorter words in alien

en lien

lie lien

Longer words containing alien

alienabilities

alienability inalienability

alienability unalienability

alienable inalienable

alienable unalienable unalienableness

alienage alienages

alienate abalienate abalienated

alienate abalienate abalienates

alienate alienated abalienated

alienate alienated nonalienated

alienate alienated realienated

alienate alienated unalienated

alienate alienates abalienates

alienate alienates realienates

alienate realienate realienated

alienate realienate realienates

alienate unalienate unalienated

alienating abalienating

alienating realienating

alienating unalienating

alienation abalienation abalienations

alienation alienations abalienations

alienation nonalienation

alienation realienation

alienator alienators

alienist alienists

alienness

aliens

clairalience

clairalient

inalienably

salience

saliency

salient

unalienably

valienamine

valienol