alien
noun [C] /ˈeɪ.li.ən/Definition
› legal 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.Racial issuesRace and ethnicity › a creature from a different planetStrange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
(Definition of alien noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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