alien vs wight

alien

noun
  • 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. 

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

verb
  • To estrange; to alienate. 

  • To transfer the ownership of something. 

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. 

wight

noun
  • A wraith-like creature. 

  • A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity. 

  • A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. 

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