单词 | off-worlder |
释义 | off-worldern. Science Fiction. A person or being from another world or planet; an alien. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > extraterrestrial inhabitant heavenwareOE superlunary1649 Selenite1650 lunarian1708 planetarian1778 little green man1802 starling1839 alien1931 space colony1932 space alien1936 ET1944 outworlder1948 off-worlder1957 extra-terrestrial1963 Klingon1968 grey1989 1957 A. Norton Star Born 187 It might be easy, now that he had established mental contact with this off-worlder, for the other to pick up a thought as vivid as that. 1962 ‘C. Smith’ in Galaxy Oct. 26/2 Maybe the offworlder tried. 1974 U. K. Le Guin Dispossessed (1975) i. 2 The aliens, the off-worlders, stayed hiding in their ship. 1999 M. J. Friedman My Brother's Keeper ii. ix. 139 After all, no Sordinian had ever benefited from contact with offworlders. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1957 |
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