Answer by AakashM for What was the common usage of the term "alien" around 1977?
The first place to look for expert answers to questions of first-use in English is the OED (£); it has the "An (intelligent) being from another planet; an extraterrestrial" meaning from 1931, with...
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"If you walked up to the average person on the street in 1977 and asked them to think of an alien, what is the first thing that would come to mind: would it be 'a monster from outer space' or 'a...
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From the dictionary:Alien [...] too different from something to be acceptable or suitablea creature that comes from somewhere other than the planet EarthAdding those two definition is not hard to turn...
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The Alien movie was released in 1979. If you walked up to the average person on the street in 1977 and asked them to think of an alien, what is the first thing that would come to mind: would it be 'a...
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