Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
- n. A foreigner, newcomer, or outsider.
- n. One who is unaccustomed to or unacquainted with something specified; a novice: a stranger to our language; no stranger to hardship.
- n. A visitor or guest.
- n. Law One that is neither privy nor party to a title, act, or contract.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who comes from another country or region; a foreigner.
- n. A person with whom one is not acquainted; one whose name and character are unknown.
- n. One who is ignorant (of) or unacquainted (with): with to.
- n. One not belonging to the house; a guest; a visitor.
- n. In law, one not privy or party to an act.
- 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.
- n. Specifically, in entomology, the noctuid moth Hadena peregrina: an English collectors' name.
- To estrange; alienate.
- n. A name in Victoria and Tasmania for a labroid fish, Odax richardsoni. Also called rock-whiting.
Wiktionary
- adj. comparative form of strange: more strange
- n. A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
- n. An outsider or foreigner
- n. A newcomer.
- n. humorous One who has not been seen for a long time.
- v. obsolete, transitive To estrange; to alienate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
- n. One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
- n. One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
- n. One who is unknown or unacquainted; ; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
- n. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
- n. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
- v. obsolete To estrange; to alienate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an individual that one is not acquainted with
- n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Etymologies
- Old French estrangier ("foreign, alien"), from Latin extraneus ("foreign, external") (whence also English estrange), from extra ("outside of"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French estrangier, from estrange, strange; see strange. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for ye know the heart of a stranger_.”
“_The comedy of Wilmot successful: The wounded stranger seen at a distance: Oratory abandoned with regret: The dangers that attend being honest: A new invitation from Hector: A journey deferred by an arrest, and another accidental sight of the stranger_”
“I pressed him on his use of the term "stranger" to refer to LGBT individuals.”
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“Assuming a rape cannot possibly occur between friends, colleagues or family members is on par with how most children define the term "stranger.”
“Rolling down your window in DC for a stranger is a sure way to become a statistic.”
“And the stranger is attracting more of them than Odd has ever seen in one place.”
“Â Then, when he starts getting tired of having a brother, he then decides the stranger is a liar, so he sets up a fake deathtrap that actually KILLS him.”
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“We know suddenly that whatever the stranger is attempting to achieve, if they fail that attempt may be unrepeatable.”
“Ask them whether they think a spanking – you know, a swift giggling slap on the ass – by a stranger is assault.”
“Marvellous as its surrounding mountains are, a stranger is apt to conclude that they but open the way to still greater marvels, and to regard the Ampezzo Thal as only the threshold of Wonderland.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stranger’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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It's a Fish
kelpfish, fatfin, dollarfish, barrelfish, palometa, poppy-fish, ballan-wrasse, sweetlips, bichir, finpike, bergall, cunner and 192 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
dampen, treacherous, black gate, man-flesh, precious, elvish, dwarf, pursuit, quarry, hobbit, sprinters, horse lords and 236 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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hip
words that are in vogue in my current lexical output.
i say these words a lot.
or i think about these words a lot.voguish, concordant, amble, moth, rollie, patois, viable, melancholy, dram, verdant, ruse, beautiful and 51 more...
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Tunie: Demasduit Dream
By Great Big Sea on their CD "Turn." This song is named for a woman named Demasduit (also spelled Demasduwit), one of the last of the Beothuk people who were native to Newfoundland. The last known ...
endless, blanket, giant, landwash, stranger, thunder, partridge, foam, sunlight, thousand, harbor, cry and 6 more...
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Tunie: No Man's Land
By Eric Bogle.
Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride,
D'you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
Been walking...again, vain, dying, killing, shame, glory, sorrow, suffering, end, war, the cause, why and 47 more...
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Mandy
reticent, taciturn, stoic, laconic, wistful, alienated, anonymous, outsider, stranger, wayfarer, transient, subtle
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Constellations Reel
A list of participants in the poem "Constellations reel" by lcmt
exile, beggar, dancer, songbird, passer-by, sightseer, pilgrim, storyteller, minstrel, mariner, wayfarer, stranger and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for stranger.

hernesheir It's a particular fish, in bilby-land.
rock-whiting Feb 14, 2013