Meaning

5 senses
  1. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

    Fremdling, Fremder, Fremde

    чужа́кčužák, прише́лецprišélec, незнако́мецneznakómec

    чужи́нецьčužýnecʹ, чужи́йčužýj, прибу́лецьprybúlecʹ

  2. A citizen or national of another sovereign state.

  3. (derogatory, sometimes)A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.

    Fremder, Fremde, Ausländer

    иностра́нецinostránec, чужезе́мецčužezémec, иноро́децinoródec

    інозе́мецьinozémecʹ, чужозе́мецьčužozémecʹ

  4. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.

    Außerirdischer, Außerirdische, Alien

    инопланетя́нинinoplanetjánin, инопланетя́нкаinoplanetjánka, инопланетя́неinoplanetjáne

    іншопланетя́нинinšoplanetjányn, іншопланетя́нкаinšoplanetjánka, чужопланетя́нинčužoplanetjányn

    a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere

  5. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

Examples

722 sentences
  1. I was abducted by aliens.

    Його викрали інопланетяни.

    ruМеня похищали инопланетяне.

    deIch wurde von Außerirdischen gekidnappt.

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  2. I don't think Tom is an alien.

    ruНе думаю, что Том - инопланетянин.

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  3. Do you think Tom could be an alien?

    deDenkst du, Tom könnte ein Alien sein?

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  4. I don't think that Tom is an alien.

    ruНе думаю, что Том - инопланетянин.

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  5. I think it's unlikely that aliens similar to what we see in the movies have ever visited our planet.

    Думаю, що малоймовірно, що пришельці, подібні до тих, яких ми бачимо в кіно, коли-небудь бували на нашій планеті.

    ruДумаю, маловероятно, что инопланетяне, подобные тем, что мы видим в кино, когда-либо посещали нашу планету.

    deIch halte es für unwahrscheinlich, dass Außerirdische, die so aussehen wie in den Filmen, unseren Planeten je besucht haben.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
person, etc. from outside:
foreigner:
life form of non-Earth origin:
Русский
By meaning 3
person, etc. from outside:
foreigner:
life form of non-Earth origin:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
person, etc. from outside:
life form of non-Earth origin:

Origin

From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (

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.

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Forms

plural: aliens
Singularalien
Pluralaliens

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
etc. from outside:guestA1strangerA2fremd
foreigner:outlander
Close in meaning

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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