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Stranger   /strˈeɪndʒər/   Listen
noun
Stranger  n.  
1.
One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically:
(a)
One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. "I am a most poor woman and a stranger, Born out of your dominions."
(b)
One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
(c)
One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. "Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here." "My child is yet a stranger in the world." "I was no stranger to the original."
2.
One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. "To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger."
3.
(Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.


adjective
Strange  adj.  (compar. stranger; superl. strangest)  
1.
Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." "One of the strange queen's lords." "I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues."
2.
Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic. "So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights."
3.
Not before known, heard, or seen; new. "Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you."
4.
Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. "He is sick of a strange fever." "Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me."
5.
Reserved; distant in deportment. "She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee."
6.
Backward; slow. (Obs.) "Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause."
7.
Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. "In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange." Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation. "Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below."
Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel.
Strange woman (Script.), a harlot.
To make it strange.
(a)
To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it.
(b)
To make it a matter of difficulty. (Obs.)
To make strange, To make one's self strange.
(a)
To profess ignorance or astonishment.
(b)
To assume the character of a stranger.
Synonyms: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.


verb
Stranger  v. t.  To estrange; to alienate. (Obs.)





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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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