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Plural of alien

regular plural

The plural of alien is aliens.

Forms of alien

Singularalien /ˈeɪ.li.ən/
Pluralaliens
Countablecountable

Aliens in a sentence

  • Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.2004, Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice, Destiny Image Publishers, page 74
  • A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.From the entry canon
  • The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.From the entry assimilate
  • The evil aliens' death rays could not penetrate our mighty force fields!From the entry death ray
  • I know that aliens are there, somewhere.From the entry there

Meaning of alien

  1. noun A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
  2. noun A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
  3. noun A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.

Full definition of alien

Questions about the plural of alien

What is the plural of alien?
The plural of alien is aliens.
Is alien countable?
Alien is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alien (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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