ALIEN
What does "ALIEN" mean?
A being from another world, or a person who is a foreigner or outsider.
Meanings
- A hypothetical or fictional being from another planet. The film imagines aliens who communicate only in music.
- A person who is not a citizen of the country where they live; a foreigner. The form asked whether he was a resident alien. formal
- Unfamiliar, foreign, or contrary to one's nature. Cruelty was alien to her gentle temperament.
Did you know?
- 'Alien' meant a human foreigner for centuries before it meant a being from space; it shares the Latin root 'alius' (other) with 'alias' and 'alibi'.
Word origin
From Latin 'alienus' (belonging to another, foreign), from 'alius' (other); via Old French into English, long before any space-faring sense.
Remember it
ALIEN contains 'A LIE' - and an outsider is someone whose truth feels foreign to you.
A little poem
Not green, not from the stars-
just the new face at the table,
speaking a grammar the room forgot.
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Wordplay
- The immigration officer asked if I was an alien. I said only in the legal sense - my spaceship's just a very old sedan.
What it teaches
Everyone is an alien somewhere; 'other' is not a fact about a person, only a fact about which door they entered.
Quick facts
What does ALIEN mean?
A being from another world, or a person who is a foreigner or outsider.
Is ALIEN a valid word?
Yes — ALIEN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ALIEN?
ALIEN has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does ALIEN come from?
From Latin 'alienus' (belonging to another, foreign), from 'alius' (other); via Old French into English, long before any space-faring sense.
What can ALIEN teach us?
Everyone is an alien somewhere; 'other' is not a fact about a person, only a fact about which door they entered.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.