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Word entry · 5 letters

alien

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"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
1A2L3I4E5N

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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