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 bourgeoisie is the upper class, people who own and control the means of production, such as factories, etc.The proletariat are people who have blue collar types of jobs, in mining, manufacturing, farming, etc., the people who do manual labor.he bourgeoisie is the upper class, people who own and control the means of production, such as factories, etc.