Synonym: different, foreign, strange. Antonym: civil, national. Similar words: client, lie on, lie in, relief, lie down, relieve, supplier, Charlie. Meaning: ['eɪljən] 
n. 1. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country 2. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found 3. a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere. v. 1. transfer property or ownership 2. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness. adj. 1. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something 2. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
n. 1. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country 2. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found 3. a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere. v. 1. transfer property or ownership 2. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness. adj. 1. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something 2. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world. 
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91, To the rest of Britain, such behavior is not only alien, but alienating.
92, Travellers' contact with social work services frequently resulted in the loss of children into care and an alien culture.
93, Tom caught my eye behind her back and winked to acknowledge my presence on alien territory.
94, By doing so they have jettisoned a solidarity that could have united them against the invader alien to them both.
95, He decided eventually that to embrace Buddhism would be to plunge into a world too culturally alien.
96, His decision to send her away from her home and brother into an alien world was interpreted as rejection.
97, Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
98, He struggled for a moment to remember the rules for first contact with alien cultures.
99, I feel the silence more than hear it; it feels cold, oppressive, alien.
100, One to concentrate on his thoughts, the other to concentrate on the flight ahead that was alien to his being.
101, So, as an alternative to the implantation of alien or artificial hearts, Daedalus is devising a new auxiliary blood-pump.
102, But in 1980 they seemed to take on an alien form.
103, And some of those things make the Alien seem downright companionable.
104, Many members of the alien companies of the Pioneers chafed against the restrictions of their service.
105, With a shrug, he shrugged off alien concepts such as responsibility, maturity, ambition and commitment.
106, I watched with interest - it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species, a praying mantis or something.sentence dictionary
107, Some modern Christians may find the Trinitarian emphasis alien and difficult.
108, Identifying one another like fellow nationals grounded amid alien hordes in a foreign airport, they exchanged glances dense with judgement.
109, The latter had been undeveloped while I lived in alien cultures.
110, Nevertheless, the notion of collective decision-making about patient care, about priorities and treatment options, is quite alien.
111, This great two-disc version of the alien invasion blockbuster is packed with extras.
112, Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car.
113, She was an alien in the country with no dole to fall back on, didn't have much money.
114, I have a boss who is an alien from another planet.
115, It is bad enough for a believer in any faith to have the content of his belief infiltrated by alien ideas.
116, Her poor memory was altogether irrelevant to her status as an alien.
117, I craved the knowledge of what it would be like to attach myself to an alien culture for an extended period.
118, March 20 is the final deadline for legal residents to apply for new Alien Registration Cards to replace those issued before 1979.
119, Nor was its bare face the ethereally lovely, angular visage of that alien species.
120, But beyond those frontiers are alien cultures which impinge on our own for good or ill.
More similar words: client, lie on, lie in, relief, lie down, relieve, supplier, Charlie, believe, believe in, valid, deal in, a little, realize, Italian, qualify, friend, validity, lenient, ancient, patient, science, journalism, coalition, mortality, mutualism, journalist, sexuality, realistic, friendly.