The Clue
Green-card applicant (5 letter answer)
The Answer
ALIEN
Tags
Notes
The answer ALIEN is very common and appears about once every 48 puzzles.
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Faraway
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Immigrant
Nonterrestrial
Outlander
Outsider
Peregrine
Strange
Stranger
Superman, for one
You, to E.T.
Completely foreign
Klingon, e.g.
Martian, e.g.
Mork, e.g.
Not native
Saucer creature
Tramontane of sorts
Ufologist's study
Visitor space
Xenophobe's aversion
Green card holder
Green-card possessor
Little green man?
Many a day laborer
Not at all familiar
Out of this world
Sci-fi character
Sci-fi heavy
Roswell crash victim, supposedly
One who's out of this world?
Definition
ALIEN as a noun:
1. (foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander) = a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
2. (stranger, alien, unknown) = anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
3. (extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial, alien) = a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
ALIEN as a verb:
1. (alien, alienate) = transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
2. (estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect) = arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
ALIEN as an adjective:
1. (alien, foreign) = not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
2. (alien, exotic) = being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"