Martian vs Aliens - What's the difference?
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(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 an adjective martian
is (astronomy) , "of or pertaining to the planet mars".As a noun aliens is
.As a verb aliens is
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English
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.