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To: NittanyLion
Maybe if she picked up a dictionary. The first definition is always the more common usage, the others are alternates I believe.

a·li·en Pronunciation (l-n, lyn) adj.

1. Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign: alien residents.

2. Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange. See Synonyms at foreign.

3. Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature: emotions alien to her temperament. n.

1. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen.

2. A person from another and very different family, people, or place.

3. A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.

4. A creature from outer space: a story about an invasion of aliens.

5. Ecology An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.

tr.v. a·li·ened, a·li·en·ing, a·li·ens Law To transfer (property) to another; alienate.

20 posted on 02/28/2007 4:42:15 PM PST by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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Criminal Invaders works for me.


21 posted on 02/28/2007 4:47:29 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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