Alien vs Martian - What's the difference?
alien | martian |
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
A foreigner residing in a country.
* 1773 , William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, Volume 1 (Fifth Edition) , page 372
* 1831 , John Marshall, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia , U.S. Government
* 2004 , Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice , Destiny Image Publishers, page 74
Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
* Bible, Ephes. ii. 12
Pertaining to an alien.
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
* Wordsworth
(astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars; aggressive, bellicose.
(obsolete) Pertaining to war or battle; military.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
Of or relating to the planet Mars or its imagined inhabitants.
* 2004 , Mark Pilkington, The Guardian , 8 Jan 2004:
(science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mars.
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As nouns the difference between alien and martian
is that alien is a person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration while Martian is an inhabitant of the planet Mars.As adjectives the difference between alien and martian
is that alien is pertaining to an alien while Martian is pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars; aggressive, bellicose.As a verb alien
is to estrange; to alienate.alien
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Alternative forms
* alyaunteNoun
(en noun)- An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.
- The counsel have shown conclusively that they are not a state of the union, and have insisted that individually they are aliens , not owing allegiance to the United States.
- Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.
- Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.
Synonyms
* * See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
- principles alien to our religion
- An alien sound of melancholy.
Alternative forms
* alieneAnagrams
* English adjectives ending in -en ----martian
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Adjective
(-)- The judges, which thereto selected were, / Into the Martian field adowne descended / To deeme this doutfull case, for which they all contended.
- She claimed her astral body was transported to the planet, so she was able to draw detailed Martian landscapes and to speak and write its language.
Derived terms
* Martianism * Martian poetry * Martian blueberry * Martian spheruleNoun
(wikipedia Martian) (en noun)Go away, we need you, passage=A Martian' who landed in Britain in the past few weeks—assuming he managed to get a visa—would take it for a place that dislikes visitors.