Meaning of stranger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. comparative form of strange: more strange
2. A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
3. A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance
4. An outsider or foreigner.
5. A person coming from another country or into a new community:alien, émigré, foreigner, newcomer, outlander, outsider.
6. An outsider or foreigner
7. One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
8. vreemd بِغَرابَه странно estranhamente podivně, cize fremd mærkeligt παράξενα extrañamente imelikult بطرز غير عادي oudosti bizarrement בּאוֹפֶן מוּזָר आश्चर्यजनकता से, अपरिचितता से, विदेशीपन से, अनोखेपन से nepoznatno, neobično különösképpen, furcsán secara aneh undarlega stranamente 奇妙に 이상하게 keistai savādi; svešādi tidak seperti biasa vreemdrart, underlig dziwnie په غیر عادی توګه estranhamente în mod bizar/straniu странно cudzo, zvláštne čudno neobično konstigt น่าแปลก; น่าประหลาด garip şekil...
9. One not admitted to communion or fellowship
10. A newcomer.
11. vreemdheid غَرابَه странност estranheza cizost, zvláštnost die Fremdheit fremmedhed παραξενιά, αλλοκοτιάextrañeza veidrus غير عادي outous bizarrerieמוזרות अपरिचितता, विदेशीपन, अनोखापन, अनूठापन neobičnost, čudnovatost különösség, furcsaság keanehan undarleiki; framandleiki stranezza 奇妙さ 이상함 keistumas savādība; svešādums keganjilan vreemdheidmerkverdighet, underlighet dziwny charakter غیر عادی estranheza bizarerie странность cudzosť, zvláštnosť nenavadnost neobičnost konstighet ความประหลาด yaba...
12. A newcomer
13. Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
    humorous
14. surprisingly. Strange to say, he did pass his exam after all. verbasend بصورةٍ مُفاجِئَه странно наистина por estranho que pareça zvláštní věc seltsamerweise mærkeligt nok όλως παραδόξως por extraño que parezca, aunque parezca mentira ennäe imet, ime küll بطرز شگفت آور ihme kyllä chose étrange מוזר आश्चर्यजनक रूप से začudno, čudno bármily furcsa is secara mengejutkan til mestu furðu (strano a dirsi) 不思議なことに 이상한 이야기지만 kad ir kaip keista dīvainā kārtā; pārsteidzoši yang mengejutkan vreemd genoe...
15. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
    obsolete
16. it is strange (that). He lives next door, but strangely enough I rarely see him. vreemd genoeg خلافا للعادَه، بصورةٍ غَريبَه جدا странно е че por estranho que pareça kupodivu seltsamerweise mærkeligt nok παραδόξως por extraño que parezca kummaline (et) عجيب است كه mikä erikoista chose étrange מוּזָר ש- आश्चर्य है कि čudno különösképpen anehnya þó undarlegt sé stranamente 妙なことに 이상하게도 keista, bet dīvaini, bet yang hairannya vreemd genoeg merkelig nok dziwne jest to że ... عجیبه ده چی por estran...
17. One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
18. One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
19. 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.
    obsolete
20. A foreigner, newcomer, or outsider.
21. One who is unaccustomed to or unacquainted with something specified; a novice: a stranger to our language; no stranger to hardship.
22. Law One that is neither privy nor party to a title, act, or contract.
    Law
23. Archaic A visitor or guest.
    Archaic

Equivalents

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”

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

“Hello, stranger!”

“To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger.”

“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.”

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