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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
  2. n. A foreigner, newcomer, or outsider.
  3. n. One who is unaccustomed to or unacquainted with something specified; a novice: a stranger to our language; no stranger to hardship.
  4. n. A visitor or guest.
  5. n. Law One that is neither privy nor party to a title, act, or contract.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who comes from another country or region; a foreigner.
  2. n. A person with whom one is not acquainted; one whose name and character are unknown.
  3. n. One who is ignorant (of) or unacquainted (with): with to.
  4. n. One not belonging to the house; a guest; a visitor.
  5. n. In law, one not privy or party to an act.
  6. n. Some thing popularly supposed or humorously said to betoken the approach of a stranger or guest, as guttering in a candle or a teastalk in a cup of tea.
  7. n. Specifically, in entomology, the noctuid moth Hadena peregrina: an English collectors' name.
  8. To estrange; alienate.
  9. n. A name in Victoria and Tasmania for a labroid fish, Odax richardsoni. Also called rock-whiting.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. comparative form of strange: more strange
  2. n. A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
  3. n. An outsider or foreigner
  4. n. A newcomer.
  5. n. humorous One who has not been seen for a long time.
  6. v. obsolete, transitive To estrange; to alienate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
  2. n. One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
  3. n. One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
  4. n. One who is unknown or unacquainted; ; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
  5. n. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
  6. n. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
  7. v. obsolete To estrange; to alienate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an individual that one is not acquainted with
  2. n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

Etymologies

  1. Old French estrangier ("foreign, alien"), from Latin extraneus ("foreign, external") (whence also English estrange), from extra ("outside of"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French estrangier, from estrange, strange; see strange. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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