stranger

Plural: strangers

Noun

• anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
• an individual that one is not acquainted with
• A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
• An outsider or foreigner.
• One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
• A newcomer.
• Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
• One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
• One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
• A superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea, the guttering of a candle, etc.

Adjective

• being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
• relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world

Adjective Satellite

• not known before

Adj

• comparative form of strange: more strange

Verb

Verb Forms: strangered, strangering, strangers

• To alienate or make unfamiliar; to estrange.
• To estrange; to alienate.

Examples

• Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.
• After playing a questionable word, he felt he might stranger his opponent’s trust.
• Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
• Hello, stranger!
• That gentleman is a stranger to me.
• Truth is stranger than fiction.

Synonyms

alien, foreign, strange, unknown, unusual, beginner, newbie, newcomer

Antonyms

acquaintance, familiar, native, compatriot, countryman, fellow citizen, fellow countryman, friend, national, resident

Related Words

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