Definition of Alien

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Definition of Alien

Alien

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.

A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

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Alien Quotations

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mohandas Gandhi

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
Ambrose Bierce

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
Aeschylus

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
Jeanne Moreau

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
John L. Lewis

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
John L. Lewis

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Philip Zimbardo

Alien Translations

alien in Afrikaans is teenoorgesteld, vreemd
alien in Danish is fremmed, udenlandsk, modsat
alien in Dutch is ijselijk, afschuwelijk
alien in Finnish is vieras
alien in French is hideux
alien in German is fremd, fremder
alien in Latin is alienus
alien in Norwegian is fremmed
alien in Portuguese is estrangeiro
alien in Spanish is extranjero

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