Alien vs. Stranger — What's the Difference?

Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign

A stranger is a person who is unknown to another person or group. Because of this unknown status, a stranger may be perceived as a threat until their identity and character can be ascertained.

Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange.

One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature

A foreigner, newcomer, or outsider.

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

One who is unaccustomed to or unacquainted with something specified; a novice

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

(Law) One that is neither privy nor party to a title, act, or contract.

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

(Archaic) A visitor or guest.

A creature from outer space

A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

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

An outsider or foreigner.

To transfer (property) to another; alienate.

One not admitted to communion or fellowship.

A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

A newcomer.

A person in a country not their own.

(humorous) One who has not been seen for a long time.

Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.

(obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

(legal) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

(obsolete) A superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea, the guttering of a candle, etc.

Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

To estrange; to alienate.

Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.

One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.

(transitive) To estrange; to alienate.

One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.

(law) To transfer the ownership of something.

One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; - followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.

One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.

A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.

One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

To estrange; to alienate.

To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere

Transfer property or ownership;

Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something;

Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world;