alienadjective
uk/ˈeɪ.li.ən/us/ˈeɪ.li.ən/coming from a different country, race, or group:
an alien culture
Synonym
foreign
strange and not familiar:
When I first went to New York, it all felt very alien to me.
[ before noun ] relating to creatures from another planet:
an alien spacecraft
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Racial issues
- anti-Semitic
- anti-Semitism
- color bar
- color line
- color prejudice
- ethnic cleansing
- ethnic minority
- foreign
- foreigner
- ghetto
- institutionalized racism
- nativism
- NF
- non-racist
- Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Arabism
- racist
- Uncle Tom
- white flight
- white supremacy
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Unknown and unfamiliar
Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
aliennoun [ C ]
uk/ˈeɪ.li.ən/us/ˈeɪ.li.ən/specialized law someone who lives in a country of which they are not a legal citizen:
When war broke out the government rounded up thousands of aliens and put them in temporary camps.
a creature from a different planet
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Racial issues
- anti-Semitic
- anti-Semitism
- color bar
- color line
- color prejudice
- ethnic cleansing
- ethnic minority
- foreign
- foreigner
- ghetto
- institutionalized racism
- nativism
- NF
- non-racist
- Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Arabism
- racist
- Uncle Tom
- white flight
- white supremacy
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people