alien

adjective/ˈeɪliən/

Frequency rank: #2,831 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A being from another world; or strange and unfamiliar.

Illustration for the English word “alien”

Example sentence

The spaceship landed on Earth, and everyone wondered if the pilot was alien to our planet.

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