alienage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: al=ien=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

alienage, n. [Cf. OF. aliénage.].

•  The state or legal condition of being an alien.  [1913 Webster]

  " The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization."  Kent. Wharton.  [1913 Webster]

  "Estates forfeitable on account of alienage."  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being alienated or transferred to another.  Brougham.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

alienage, n. the state or condition of being an alien.

ROGET THESAURUS

alienage

Extraneousness

N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.