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Stranger   /strˈeɪndʒər/   Listen
Stranger

noun
1.
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found.  Synonyms: alien, unknown.
2.
An individual that one is not acquainted with.


Strange

adjective
(compar. stranger; superl. strangest)
1.
Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.  Synonym: unusual.  "A strange fantastical mind" , "What a strange sense of humor she has"
2.
Not known before.  Synonym: unknown.  "Saw many strange faces in the crowd" , "Don't let anyone unknown into the house"
3.
Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world.  Synonym: foreign.  "A foreign accent" , "On business in a foreign city"



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"Stranger" Quotes from Famous Books



... were no other interests in life beyond cattle, sport, and prospecting that could account for the stranger's presence ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor
... Radisson took ship to Rochelle. Here he found himself a stranger in his native land. All his kin of whom there is any record—Pierre Radisson, his father, Madeline Henault, his mother, Marguerite and Francoise, his elder and younger sisters, his uncle and aunt, with their daughter, Elizabeth—were now living ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut
... went involuntarily up in the salute, to its owner's secret rage. Did he want every English officer to recognise him as an old deserter from the Cape Mounted Police? Not he—and yet the cursed habit stuck. But he looked the stranger squarely in the face with that frank look that masked such depth of guile, and greeted him with the simple manner that concealed so much, and the English officer lifted his left hand, as though it raised a sword, and began to ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... were full of delight over their treasure, and eager to show it to grandpa, grandma, Aunt Rosie, Aunt Wealthy and Aunt May; regretting much that the rest of their friends had left Viamede before the advent of the little stranger. ...
— Elsie's children • Martha Finley
... York Society—in that modern, wealthy, hard-witted, over-jewelled, self-sufficient league which is yet too eternally uncertain of its own status to assume any authority or any responsibility for a stranger without credentials,—it would not be possible to make Valerie West acceptable in the slightest sense of the word. Because she is too well known; her beauty is celebrated; she has become famous. Her only chance there—or with us—would have been in her absolute anonymity. Then lies might have ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers


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