Thesaurus: stranger

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1. n. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
2. n. One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
3. n. One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
4. n. One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
5. n. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
6. 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.
7. v. t. To estrange; to alienate.
8. n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
9. n. an individual that one is not acquainted with
10. 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. Shak. (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. Granville. My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. I was no stranger to the original. Dryden. 2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger. Milton. 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. To estrange; to alienate. [Obs.] Shak.
11. One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mereintruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as,actual possession of land gives a good title against a strangerhaving no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely asa pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.
12. n:100 n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found n. an individual that one is not acquainted with