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alien

1. noun /ˈeɪ.li.ən/

a) A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.

b) A foreigner residing in a country.

The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens, not owing allegiance to the United States.

See Also: alienage, space alien

2. adjective /ˈeɪ.li.ən/

a) Pertaining to an alien.

b) Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

3. verb /ˈeɪ.li.ən/

a) To estrange; to alienate.

b) To transfer the ownership of something.

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