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"alien" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often unknown (7 letters).
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”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“From elsewhere”5 letters
02“Exotic”5 letters
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