strangers

[strangĀ·er]

A stranger is someone you don't know or who doesn't belong in a specific place.

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One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.

Noun
anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found


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; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.

n.
One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

n.
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.

v. t.
To estrange; to alienate.


Stranger

Stran"ger , n. [OF. estrangier, F. '82tranger. See Strange.] 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.

Stranger

Stran"ger, v. t. To estrange; to alienate. [Obs.] Shak.

One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.

To estrange; to alienate.

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Usage Examples

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Never floss with a stranger.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

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Other Usage Examples

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

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