stranger

1. n. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Source: opted

2. n. One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. Source: opted

3. n. One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. n. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

7. v. t. To estrange; to alienate. Source: opted

8. n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found Source: wordnet

9. n. an individual that one is not acquainted with Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

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 Source: ecdict

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