stranger

adj

/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/UK/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/US

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”).

inherited from straunger

Definitions

1
comparative form of strange
comparative form of strange: more strange
- Truth is stranger than fiction.
2
A person whom one does not know
A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
- That gentleman is a stranger to me.
- Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
3
An outsider or foreigner.
- 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.
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1. One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
2. 5
  A newcomer.
  - 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.
3. 6
  Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
  - Hello, stranger!
4. 7
  One not belonging to the family or household
  One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
  - To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger.
5. 8
  One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title
  One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
  - 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.
6. A superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea,…
  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.
7. A moth, Lacanobia blenna
8. 11
  To estrange
  To estrange; to alienate.
  - Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oath

The neighborhood

synonymnewcomer
synonymbeginner
antonymacquaintanceantonym(s) of “person whom one does not know”
antonymfriendantonym(s) of “person whom one does not know”
antonymcompatriotantonym(s) of “outsider, foreigner”
antonymcountrymanantonym(s) of “outsider, foreigner”
antonymfellow citizenantonym(s) of “outsider, foreigner”
antonymfellow countrymanantonym(s) of “outsider, foreigner”
antonymnationalantonym(s) of “outsider, foreigner”
antonymresidentantonym(s) of “outsider, foreigner”
neighbormyall
neighborforeigner
neighborforeign national
neighbornon-national
neighbornonnational
neighbornon-resident
neighbornonresident
neighboroutsider
neighboroutcast

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stranger. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at stranger. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at stranger

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA