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PRONUNCIATION OF ENEMY ALIEN

enemy alien  [ˈɛnəmɪ ˈeɪlɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENEMY ALIEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enemy alien is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENEMY ALIEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

enemy alien

Enemy alien

In law, an enemy alien is a citizen of a country which is in a state of conflict with the land in which he or she is located. Usually, but not always, the countries are in a state of declared war.

Definition of enemy alien in the English dictionary

The definition of enemy alien in the dictionary is a citizen of one country living in another country with which it is at war, and viewed as suspect as a result.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENEMY ALIEN


antialien
ˌæntɪˈeɪlɪən
antithalian
ˌæntɪˈθeɪlɪən
Australian
ɒˈstreɪlɪən
bacchanalian
ˌbækəˈneɪlɪən
Castalian
kæˈsteɪlɪən
Daedalian
dɪˈdeɪlɪən
Deucalion
djuːˈkeɪlɪən
episcopalian
ɪˌpɪskəˈpeɪlɪən
Hegelian
hɪˈɡeɪlɪən
Lupercalian
ˌluːpəˈkeɪlɪən
mammalian
mæˈmeɪlɪən
marsupialian
mɑːˌsjuːpɪˈeɪlɪən
ordalian
ɔːˈdeɪlɪən
Pygmalion
pɪɡˈmeɪlɪən
Salian
ˈseɪlɪən
saturnalian
ˌsætəˈneɪlɪən
sesquipedalian
ˌsɛskwɪpɪˈdeɪlɪən
Thessalian
θɛˈseɪlɪən
vocalion
vəʊˈkeɪlɪən
Westphalian
wɛstˈfeɪlɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENEMY ALIEN

enema
enemata
enemies
enemy
enemy action
enemy-occupied
energetic
energetical
energetically
energetics
energic
energid
energies
energisation
energise
energiser
energization
energize
energizer
energizing

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENEMY ALIEN

alien
bien
Cap-Haitien
Damien
Darien
Hsin-hai-lien
illegal alien
lien
mien
Nigerien
O´Brien
Saghalien
Schlesien
sien
Sinhailien
Skien
Talien
Tolkien
vaurien
Wien

Synonyms and antonyms of enemy alien in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «enemy alien» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENEMY ALIEN

Find out the translation of enemy alien to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of enemy alien from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enemy alien» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

的敌人外星人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enemigo extranjero
570 millions of speakers

English

enemy alien
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दुश्मन विदेशी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عدو أجنبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

враждебного
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alienígena inimigo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শত্রু এলিয়েন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

étranger ennemi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Musuh asing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

feindlicher Ausländer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

敵国人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

적의 외계인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Musuh asing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kẻ thù ngoài hành tinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எதிரி அன்னிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शत्रू उपरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Düşman yabancı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alieno nemico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wróg obcy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ворожого
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

străin dușman
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εχθρό αλλοδαπός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vyand uitheemse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fientlig utlänning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fiendtlige fremmede
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enemy alien

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENEMY ALIEN»

The term «enemy alien» is normally little used and occupies the 131.798 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENEMY ALIEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «enemy alien» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «enemy alien» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enemy alien

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENEMY ALIEN»

Discover the use of enemy alien in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enemy alien and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
We Are Strangers Here: An 'Enemy Alien' in Prison in 1940
This book highlights the plight of German anti-Nazis and Jews in British exile and has a distinct air of tragicomedy about it.
Ruth Borchard, 2008
2
The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations ...
Conspiracy <g=>47— I rrtent to defraud the United States by protecting Interest of enemy alien held sufficiently shown. Assuming that criminal intent is essential to a conspiracy to defraud the United States, under Criminal Code, g 37 (Comp.
Robert Desty, James Wells Goodwin, Peyton Boyle, 1922
3
Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada During ...
The order provided for the creation of registration centres tasked with the security function of monitoring the personal status of the enemy alien and with the internment of enemy aliens who violated the various directives regulating conduct ...
Bohdan S. Kordan, 2002
4
Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples
Newfoundland arrested all of its thirty-five nationals of enemy-alien origin, including twenty-two Germans, in July 1915 and shipped them to Canadian internment camps. In Labrador twenty-two mostly German-born Moravian missionaries were ...
Paul R. Magocsi, 1999
5
Viereck's
“This does not mean that there is little danger to be apprehended from enemy alien activities. On the contrary, the most careful watchfulness is constantly necessary; but I cite this illustration to you to show you how unfounded are some of the ...
6
Japanese Americans - Pb
This paper examines one aspect of wartime civil liberties, the enemy alien control program of the Justice Department. Specifically, it is a study of the origins and operations of one enemy alien internment camp that the Justice Department ...
Daniels Et
7
Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of ...
It shall be the duty of a Registrar to examine each enemy alien attending before him and to register in a book, to be provided for the purpose, the name, age, nationality, place of residence in Canada and in the country of nationality, occupation, ...
Jennifer Henderson, Pauline Wakeham, 2013
8
The Law Relating to Trading with the Enemy: Together with a ...
But I know it has been suggested that while the Proclamation may, under certain conditions of residence, authorize, in the sense that it does not prohibit, transactions with a person who may be an enemy alien born, still it has not the effect of ...
Charles Henry Huberich, 1918
9
Minnesota Law Review
court in a recent case says : ''As affecting civil rights and liabilities, it is said to be clear law that it is not his nationality, but the fact that he carries on business or voluntarily resides in an enemy country, that makes an enemy alien."4 Yet in a ...
10
The International Law of Human Rights and States of ...
or driver's licence; they also had to report to the police, see KEMPNER, "The Enemy Alien Problem", p. 445. 139 BENTWICH, "England", p. 88; KEMPNER, " The Enemy Alien Problem", p. 445 and KOESSLER, "Enemy Alien Internment", pp.
Anna-Lena Svensson-McCarthy, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENEMY ALIEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term enemy alien is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Just Back: Isle of Man
I was especially interested in the archives section, home to original documents from the “enemy alien” prison camps that the island maintained ... «National Geographic Traveler Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Pride of Australia: War veteran Alec Weaver was member of Hitler …
... I was summoned before the commanding officer who confronted me with being an enemy alien and guilty of fraudulent enlistment,” he said. «Herald Sun, Jun 15»
3
WWII veteran honoured
Indeed, Waxman was an “enemy alien”. As a German national he fled Nazi persecution to join the British in their fight against Hitler. «Australian Jewish News, Jun 15»
4
'Falling Skies' season 5 spoilers: Who survives to see the strong …
... Massachusetts Militia Regiment successfully destroyed the enemy alien's power core. Inside, Tom encounters yet another mysterious alien. «ChristianToday, Jun 15»
5
Montmartre/Montparnasse
His German lover was classified as an enemy alien and banished to a detention camp. He suffered from painful ulcers and, unable to consume ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
6
Sofie Laguna's The Eye of the Sheep wins 2015 Miles Franklin …
... on her Japanese-Australian heritage to tell an unusual World War II story of a Japanese doctor interred as an enemy alien in South Australia, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
7
PPP fighting for its survival
... acts under the directions or in concert or conspiracy with or in furtherance of the designs of an enemy alien will also be treated as a militant. «Daily Times, Jun 15»
8
The Supreme Court said it holds no jurisdiction to entertain a petition …
Citing an example, the federal law officer explained that an enemy alien, if apprehended, would never be tried under ordinary civil courts; ... «DAWN.com, Jun 15»
9
The underwater polymath
... was the beginning of the war and my father was immediately interned as an enemy alien and sent to the Isle of Man because he was Italian. «Fitzrovia News, Jun 15»
10
99 -yr-old Dunera Boy planning 2017 exhibition
Interned in London as an enemy alien, he arrived in Australia on the infamous ship Dunera in 1940 and was sent to Hay, NSW. He stayed on in ... «J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
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