What is a tanner?

Answer 1

Often Disparaging and Offensive. a resident of one country who was born in or owes allegiance to Another Country and has not acquired citizenship by naturalization in the country of residence (distinguished from citizen). See also resident alien, illegal alien.

2. a foreigner.

3. a person who has been estranged or excluded.

4. a creature from outer space; extraterrestrial (def 2).

adjective 5. residing under a government or in a country other than that of one's birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there.

6. belonging or relating to aliens: alien property.

7. unlike one's own; strange; not belonging to one: alien speech.

8. adverse; hostile; opposed (usually followed by to or from): ideas alien to modern thinking.

9. extraterrestrial (def 1).

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Origin of alien

Middle English

Middle French

Latin

1300-1350

1300-50; Middle English < Middle French < Latin aliēnus, equivalent to *alies- (ali-, base of alius other + -es- noun suffix) + -nus adj. suffix

Related forms

nonalien, noun, adjective

proalien, adjective

Synonyms

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1. immigrant. 2. See stranger. 3. outcast. 7. exotic, foreign.

Usage note

See illegal alien