STRANGER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

Synonyms:

alien; stranger; unknown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("stranger" is a kind of...):

interloper; intruder; trespasser (someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stranger"):

foreigner; outsider (someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group)

Antonym:

acquaintance (a person with whom you are acquainted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An individual that one is not acquainted with

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("stranger" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Antonym:

acquaintance (a person with whom you are acquainted)

Credits

Context examples:

How friendly such things make strangers feel, don't they?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It's all in the chart-room and they know their way about in it, and it's their business to show the place to strangers who might else get lost.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She saw all her wolves lying dead, and the strangers still traveling through her country.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It happened that as the horse was going a little too fast, and Tom was calling out, “Gently! gently!” two strangers came up.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Though WE have not known him long, he is no stranger in this part of the world; and who has ever spoken to his disadvantage?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The stranger walked heavily and with a measured stride, while the English knight advanced as briskly as though there was no iron shell to weigh down the freedom of his limbs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My dear sir, do not make a stranger of me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And at such times that money passed between them the strangers took one or more of the dogs away with them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Gentlemen,” said he, “there is a stranger waiting below who desires a fight to a finish with the best men in the room.”