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/ˈeɪ.li.ən/
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/ˈeɪ.ljən/
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ˈeɪ.li.ən
Sostantivo
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
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An animated film intended to inform travellers about the dangers that alien species present to Arctic ecosystems is being released today. The message is that it is important to ensure that nobody accidentally brings alien species with them as stowaways in their clothing, baggage or equipment.
A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
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An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
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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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Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.
A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
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Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
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You might not have much use for me. You spend too much time with the damn aliens, pretending your time in the gangs back on Earth never happened. I know you weren't happy when I found you at the Citadel a couple years back. But I'm glad you're on this. I hope you find whoever took my people on Freedom's Progress and kick their scaly asses. I'm glad it's a human finding these bastards.
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
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[…]aliens from the common wealth of Iſrael[…]
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The One Who, in this marvellous utterance, brings those who were by nature aliens and enemies of God into intimate and holy relations with God the Father, is the very One Who had to come to offer that Sacrifice without which such relationship would have been forever an impossibility; without which there would have been nothing for the best of men but death and judgment and the lake of fire.
Aggettivo
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
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alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
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principles alien to our religion
An alien sound of melancholy.
Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
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It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.]
Verbo
To estrange; to alienate.
Uso- transitivo
To transfer the ownership of something.
Aggettivo
not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
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an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism
the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper
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jealousy is foreign to her nature
being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
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alien customs
exotic plants in a greenhouse
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exotic cuisine
Sostantivo
a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
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anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
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a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
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Verbo
transfer property or ownership
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The will aliened the property to the heirs