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Difference Between Alien and Earthling

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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

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