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alien

/ˈeɪ.li.ən/ sustantivo B1

En español: desconocido, desconocida, advena, forastero

  1. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
  2. A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
  3. A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
  4. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
  5. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

Plural aliens

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Therefore Marilla conceived it to be her duty to drill Anne into a tranquil uniformity of disposition as impossible and alien to her as to a dancing sunbeam in one of the brook shallows.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 168 · C1
Here there was nothing of this; Anne knew that outside of her window was a hard street, with a network of telephone wires shutting out the sky, the tramp of alien feet, and a thousand lights gleaming on stranger faces.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 293 · C1
The lady was very beautiful, but the fact of her foreign birth and of her alien religion always caused a separation of interests and of feelings between husband and wife, so that after a time his love may have cooled towards her and he may have come to regard their union as a mistake.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 52 · B2
The lady began to show some curious traits quite alien to her ordinarily sweet and gentle disposition.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 52 · B2

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