stranger

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   comparative form of strange: more strangecomparativeform-of

   • Truth is stranger than fiction.

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   A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

   • That gentleman is a stranger to me.
   • Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
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   An outsider or foreigner.

   • I am a most poor woman and a stranger, / Born out of your dominions.
   • Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
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   One not admitted to communion or fellowship.

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   A newcomer.

   • Wearing number 66 for his club side, Alexander-Arnold is no stranger to an unusual shirt number. Regardless, the sight of the right-back wearing 10 in central midfield for England was guaranteed to catch the eye.
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   Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.humorous

   • Hello, stranger!
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   One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.obsolete

   • To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger.
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   One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.

   • Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.
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   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.obsolete

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   A moth, Lacanobia blennasometimeswith-definite-article

syn. newcomer · beginner

ant. acquaintance · friend · compatriot · countryman · fellow citizen · fellow countryman · national · resident

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   To estrange; to alienate.obsoletetransitive

   • Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oath