Noun

(en noun)

A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.

* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":

Thoughts, my mindes creatures , often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.

* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:

the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature .

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A living being; an animal or human.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

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A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 240:

they, too, despite the appearance of being creatures rather than creators of the Union, could assert the prior sovereignty of their states, for each had formed a state constitution […] before petitioning Congress for admission to the Union.

Noun

(en noun)

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

An alien born may purchase lands, or other estates: but not for his own use; for the king is thereupon entitled to them.

* 1831 , John Marshall, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia , U.S. Government

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.

* 2004 , Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice , Destiny Image Publishers, page 74

Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.

Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.

One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

* Bible, Ephes. ii. 12

Aliens from the common wealth of Israel.