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extraterrestrial
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
extraterrestrial \ex`tra*ter*res"tri*al\ ([e^]ks`tr[.a]*t[e^]r`r[e^]s"tr[i^]*al), adj. originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere; as, there is no clear evidence for extraterrestrial life.
extraterrestrial \extraterrestrial\ ([e^]ks`tr[.a]*t[e^]r`r[e^]s"tr[i^]*al), n. a hypothetical form of life existing outside the Earth or its atmosphere, especially intelligent life on other planets or in other solar systems; as, what would you say to an extraterrestrial?.
Syn: extraterrestrial being, alien.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also extra-terrestrial, 1812, from extra- + terrestrial. As a noun from 1956.
Wiktionary
a. Originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment. n. A being originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; an alien
WordNet
adj. originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere; "is there extraterrestrial life?"
n. a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere [syn: extraterrestrial being, alien]
Wikipedia
Extraterrestrial refers to any object or being beyond (extra-) the planet Earth (terrestrial). It is derived from the Latin words extra ("outside", "outwards") and terrestris ("earthly", "of or relating to the Earth").
It may also refer to:
- Extraterrestrial (2011 film), a 2011 film by Nacho Vigalondo
- Extraterrestrial (2014 film), a 2014 film by Colin Minihan and written by The Vicious Brothers
- Extraterrestrial (TV program), a program on the National Geographic Channel
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a 1982 film by Steven Spielberg
- "E.T." (song), a song by Katy Perry
Extraterrestrial is a 2011 Spanish science-fiction romantic comedy. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo (in his second feature), it stars Michelle Jenner, Julian Villagran and Carlos Areces.
It was filmed in Cantabria, in northern Spain and premiered in Spain on March 23, 2012. The film has shown worldwide: in the International Film Festival in Toronto, the International Film Festival of San Sebastian, the Sitges Film Festival in Sitges, Spain, and the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.
Extraterrestrial (also known under the working title of The Visitors) is a 2014 sci-fi horror film that was directed by Colin Minihan, based on a script by both Vicious Brothers. It stars Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, and Melanie Papalia as a group of friends that must defend themselves against an alien onslaught.
Usage examples of "extraterrestrial".
Von Fraunhofer himself directed his invention to the analysis of light from extraterrestrial sources.
And each of those stars could have nine planets accompanying it, the way our Sun does, which would make thirtysix plus twenty-two zeros of planets, and if each planet had a dozen or more moons like Jupiter and Saturn, we have a fantastic number of locations on which extraterrestrial life might exist.
The demonic presences--okay, the extraterrestrial sapient fast-thinkers on the other side--try to grab control over the proprioceptive nerves they can sense the layout of on the other side of the grid.
The cognitive abilities of chimpanzees force us, I think, to raise searching questions about the boundaries of the community of beings to which special ethical considerations are due, and can, I hope, help to extend our ethical perspectives downward through the taxa on Earth and upwards to extraterrestrial organisms, if they exist.
Although he had followed this route as a ufologist several times in the past without being bothered by the Army, he had never done so in the company of an extraterrestrial.
Captain Harold Rider walked up the single dusty street of what had been his Frontier Corps outpost on Deneb Five until the unexpected arrival forty-eight hours before of General Beeling and his Extraterrestrial Relations Board unit.
One noted ex- discovery of the bouncers and mothership--a sort of ample is a man called Steve Jarvis, who has claimed for archaeological discovery of extraterrestrial life.
And even if the military believed that UFOs were manufactured neither by Soviets nor by extraterrestrials, there was a good reason to follow the reports closely.
After all, if true, either hypothesis - invasion by sexually manipulative extraterrestrials or an epidemic of hallucinations - teaches us something we certainly ought to know about.
Nowadays, when such instruction is given, the extraterrestrials seem fixated on environmental degradation and AIDS.
It might strike one of those hypothetical extraterrestrials that we were planning not to have a future.
To the best of our knowledge, ladies and gentlemen, there are no unidentified flying objects that our government has not been satisfactorily able to explain, nor to our knowledge are there any extraterrestrials visiting us.
Our government had an encounter with extraterrestrials three years ago.
Strange, she thought, how the integers, which are discrete, and our attempts to chart time, which is continuous, may well combine to give us a common area of reference with extraterrestrials.
He stares at these with awe and reverence: they are the first multicelled extraterrestrial beings ever discovered, though he suspects and hopes that they will not be the last.