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alien

Best crossword clue

"From elsewhere"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈeɪ.li.ən/Part of speech adjective, verb, nounSorted aeilnStarts with AEnds with N2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.

Used in a sentence

  • An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
  • 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.
  • I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01From elsewhere5 letters
02Exotic5 letters

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