2. Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange. See Synonyms at foreign. 3. Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature: emotions alien to her temperament.
n, pl -thens or -then. 1. (Alternative Belief Systems) a person who does not acknowledge the God of Christianity, Judaism, or Islam; pagan. 2. an uncivilized or barbaric person. 3. (Alternative Belief Systems) the heathen (functioning as plural) heathens collectively.
The definition of a vixen is a hot-tempered woman, or a female fox. 1  A feisty, quarrelsome woman is an example of a vixen. 2  A female red fox is an example of a vixen. 3  a female fox.  an ill-tempered, shrewish, or malicious woman.