alien vs parvenu

alien

noun
  • One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged. 

  • Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin. 

  • A foreigner residing in a country. 

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

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

  • Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed. 

  • Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature. 

verb
  • To estrange; to alienate. 

  • To transfer the ownership of something. 

parvenu

noun
  • A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class. 

adj
  • Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu. 

How often have the words alien and parvenu occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )