alien
alien
I
/ˈeılijən/ adj
1 [more ~; most ~] : not familiar or like other things you have known : different from what you are used to
She felt lost in an alien [=strange] culture when she moved to the city.
an alien environment
Honesty seems to be an alien concept in that family. [=people in that family are not honest]
— often + to
The whole idea of having a job was alien [=unfamiliar, foreign] to him.
2 : from another country : foreign
alien residents
3 [more ~; most ~] : too different from something to be acceptable or suitable
— + to
Such behavior is totally alien to the spirit of the religion.
ideas alien to [=incompatible with] democracy
4 : from somewhere other than the planet Earth
an alien spaceship
The movie is a story about an attack on Earth by an army of alien [=extraterrestrial] monsters.
————————
II
noun , pl aliens [ count ]
1 : a person who was born in a different country and is not a citizen of the country in which he or she now lives
aliens seeking asylum in the U.S.
illegal aliens [=foreign people who live in a country without having official permission to live there]
2 : a creature that comes from somewhere other than the planet Earth
The movie is about an invasion by aliens. [=extraterrestrials]
He claims that he was captured by space aliens.
