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ALIEN

stranger, alien, unknown - n 
anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found 

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Synoynms

foreigner, immigrant, intruder, migrant, outsider, refugee, settler, stranger, visitor, floater, greenhorn, guest, interloper, invader, newcomer, noncitizen, squatter

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Examples

The deaf child who has only the sign language of De l'Epee is an intellectual Philip Nolan, an alien from all races, and his thoughts are not the thoughts of an Englishman, or a Frenchman, or a Spaniard.

At this period they controlled more of the foreign and colonial trade than all the other alien merchants in London put together.

Not so with the national customs. There are features - the wooden house, the oven, the bath - which the Russian never abandons, even when swamped in an alien population.

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Etymology

"foreigner, citizen of a foreign land," early 14c., from alien (adj.) or from noun use of the adjective in French and Latin. In the science fiction sense "being from another planet," from 1953.

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