off-worlder
Not from here
An off-worlder is someone from another planet—a person not native to the world where the action takes place.
The term belongs to science fiction, where it typically carries overtones of outsider status or distrust from locals: The colonists didn't trust off-worlders.
It implies interplanetary travel is commonplace enough that such distinctions matter socially.
One who colonizes territory
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- colonistPerson inhabiting new territory
- spacefarerOne traversing the cosmos
- astronautSpacecraft crew member
cosmonaut · emigrant · terraformer · homesteader · exile · refugee · migrant · deportee
Being from outer space
- martianNative of fourth planet
- jovianGas giant descriptor
- greyNeutral achromatic tone
- reptilianOf snakes and lizards
xenomorph · visitor · abductee · contactee · invasion · mothership · hybridization · probe
settler
One who colonizes territory
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- colonistPerson inhabiting new territory
- spacefarerOne traversing the cosmos
astronaut · cosmonaut · emigrant · terraformer · homesteader · exile · refugee · migrant · deportee · expat
extraterrestrial
Being from outer space
reptilian · xenomorph · visitor · abductee · contactee · invasion · mothership · hybridization · probe · implant
spacer
Device maintaining separation
megacorp · frontier · backwater · xenophobia · citizenship
off-worldernative
Originating from a place
local · native-born · indigenous · groundling · autochthon
world, worldwide, worldly, otherworldly, unworldly, worldview, worldliness, off-world