Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ALIEN

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Definitions of ALIEN

1. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
2. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
3. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
4. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
5. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
6. Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
7. (sometimes, derogatory) A person in a country not their own.
8. (transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
9. (law) To transfer the ownership of something.
10. Alternative form of Alian.

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Examples of Using ALIEN in a Sentence

• Extraterrestrial life, or alien life (colloquially, alien), is life which does not originate from Earth.
• The player maneuvers a spacecraft known as the Vic Viper that must defend itself from the various alien enemies.
• Army Air Corps as a meteorologist, having been turned down for cryptology work because of his "enemy alien" status.
• Described in the 1985 book The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand and deliberately designed to sound "alien", it has a number of typologically uncommon features.
• In contrast to the first game, which featured a combination of science fiction and fantasy elements, Quake II entirely drops the latter elements and is set during humankind's war against a rogue alien race known as the Strogg, half-mutant half-machine creatures whose homeplanet, Stroggos, is the target of the humans' invasion force.
• The player controls a star ship, the R-9 "Arrowhead", in its efforts to destroy the Bydo, a powerful alien race bent on wiping out all of mankind.
• She joined the Maquis in 2370 and was serving on the Val jean when taken to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker alien using his station.
• Paris is the chief helmsman, as well as a temporary auxiliary medic, of the USS Voyager, a Starfleet ship that was stranded in the Delta Quadrant by an alien entity known as the Caretaker.
• The series follows the eponymous Commander Keen, the secret identity of the eight-year-old genius Billy Blaze, as he defends the Earth and the galaxy from alien threats with his homemade spaceship, rayguns, and pogo stick.
• The novel features scenes and events, including the discovery of a nearly-dead alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, "I'm sorry, but there is bad news," and the alien's subsequent interrogation and autopsy; the discovery of an artificial geological formation and its subsequent nuclear destruction by a desperate military; and the Earth's eventual destruction by the mutual annihilation of a piece of neutronium and a piece of antineutronium dropped into Earth's core.
• The Snark, fictional alien machine that visits Earth in the novel In the Ocean of Night (1977) by Gregory Benford.
• Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.
• In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the Prime Directive (also known as "Starfleet General Order 1", and the "non-interference directive") is a guiding principle of Starfleet that prohibits its members from interfering with the natural development of alien civilizations.
• Controlling the ZIG space fighter craft, players assume the role of protagonist Trent in a last-ditch effort to overthrow the alien space pirate organization CATS (Abigor in the PC-Engine version).
• The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist who must escape from the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is overrun by alien creatures following a disastrous scientific experiment.
• The indigenous alien race inhabiting Mars has recently been admitted to citizenship in the human-dominated solar system government.
• The human race has developed interstellar spaceflight and is engaged in trade with a number of alien races.

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