Alien vs. Earthling — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Alien and Earthling
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Definitions
Alien
Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign
Alien residents.
Earthling
One, especially a human, that inhabits the planet Earth.
Alien
Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange.
Earthling
A person devoted to the world; a worldling.
Alien
Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature
Emotions alien to her temperament.
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Earthling
One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman.
Alien
An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen.
Earthling
Alternative case form of Earthling
Alien
A person from another and very different family, people, or place.
Earthling
An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
Earthlings oft her deemed a deity.
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Alien
A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.
Earthling
An inhabitant of the earth
Alien
A creature from outer space
Science fiction about an invasion of aliens.
Alien
(Ecology) An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.
Alien
To transfer (property) to another; alienate.
Alien
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
Alien
A person in a country not their own.
Alien
Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
Alien
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
Alien
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
Alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
Alien
Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
Principles alien to our religion
Alien
Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
Alien
(transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
Alien
(law) To transfer the ownership of something.
Alien
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
Alien
Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; - followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
An alien sound of melancholy.
Alien
A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
Alien
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.
Alien
To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage.
Alien
A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
Alien
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Alien
A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
Alien
Transfer property or ownership;
The will aliened the property to the heirs
Alien
Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
Alien
Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something;
An economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism
The mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper
Jealousy is foreign to her nature
Alien
Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world;
Alien customs
Exotic plants in a greenhouse
Exotic cuisine