stranger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English straunger, from Old French estrangier (“foreign, alien”), from estrange, from Latin extraneus (“foreign, external”) (whence also English estrange), from extra (“outside of”). Cognate with French étranger (“foreigner, stranger”) and Spanish extranjero (“foreigner”). Displaced native Old English fremde (literally “strange or unfamiliar person”).
Inflected forms:
form: strangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
pos: noun
examples: That gentleman is a stranger to me.
Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
Our love (our love, our love) / Our love is in danger (danger) / And if you don't hurry home / I might give it to a stranger
gloss: An outsider or foreigner.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
I like to be a stranger myself—it was my destiny; but I wish to be the only stranger.
gloss: One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
pos: noun
gloss: A newcomer.
pos: noun
examples: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
The first thing that strikes the stranger is the sharpness of the curves on the metre gauge; it is not unusual for a long train to be travelling in three directions at once, and the engine is frequently in full view of the windows of the ninth or tenth carriage.
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.
gloss: Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: Hello, stranger!
gloss: One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger.
gloss: One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
pos: noun
examples: Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.
[Judge Beverly] Davis then granted the adoption to the new wife of the boy's father; this action designated the boy's natural mother a "legal stranger," terminating all rights the mother had to visit her child.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A moth, Lacanobia blenna
pos: noun
tags: sometimes
with-definite-article
Synonyms: newcomer
beginner
Antonyms: acquaintance
friend
compatriot
countryman
fellow citizen
fellow countryman
national
resident
Related words: myall
Derived words: be no stranger to
cyberstranger
don't be a stranger
familiar stranger
nonstranger
perfect stranger
stranger crime
stranger danger
strangerdom
strangeress
strangerhood
stranger in the night
strangerlike
strangerly
strangership
strangerwise
Translations:
lang: Portuguese
word: sumido