Definitions
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”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“From elsewhere”5 letters
02“Exotic”5 letters
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