stranger

Meanings

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of strange

Noun

• A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
• An outsider or foreigner.
• One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
• A newcomer.
• One who has not been seen for a long time.
• One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
• One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
• 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.

Verb

• To estrange; to alienate.

Related

Opposite words

• acquaintance, friend
• compatriot, countryman, fellow citizen, fellow countryman, national, resident

Origin

• From Middle English straunger, from Old French estrangier, from estrange, from Latin extraneus (whence also English estrange), from extra. Displaced native . Cognate with French étranger ("foreigner, stranger") and Spanish extranjero ("foreigner").