Difference between Foreign and Alien

What is the difference between Foreign and Alien?

Foreign as an adjective is from a different country. while Alien as an adjective is pertaining to an alien.

Foreign

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: From a different country. Belonging to a different culture. Of an object, etc, in a place where it does not belong. From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.

Example sentence: The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Alien

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pertaining to an alien.Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To estrange; to alienate.

Example sentence: People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

We hope you now know whether to use Foreign or Alien in your sentence.

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