Stranger

Adjective
stranger


 * 1) * Truth is stranger than fiction
 * 1) * Truth is stranger than fiction

Derived terms

 * See strange

Related terms

 * See strange

Noun

 * 1) A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
 * 2) An outsider or foreigner
 * 3) * 1961, Robert Heinlein: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
 * 4) A newcomer.

Synonyms

 * alien, foreigner, foreign national, non-national/nonnational, non-resident/nonresident, outsider
 * newbie, newcomer
 * newbie, newcomer

Antonyms

 * acquaintance, friend
 * compatriot, coutryman, fellow citizen, fellow countryman, national, one of us, resident

Derived terms

 * be no stranger to
 * don't be a stranger
 * howdie stranger
 * stranger danger

Adjectives for Stranger
formidable; mysterious; unutterable; illustrious;  witless;   unfriended;   well-bred; wandering; forlorn; curious; waiting; humble; unsuspecting; audacious; comparative; thorough; inferior; wayfaring; dreadful; distinguished; swarthy; total; casual; ungenial;  sympathetic;   neat;   unsavory; strange; queer; fluttering; passing; houseless; adulated; unnaturalized; insignificant; unheralded; blooming; detested; shrewd; plain-spoken; earth-born;  rough-looking; drunken; drawling-voiced.

Verbs for Stranger
acquaint—with; admit—; appraise—; apprehend—; beguile—; bilk—; confide in—; cultivate—; deceive—; defraud—; delude —; discuss—; distrust—; dupe—; enlight¬en—; entertain—; exclude—s; extend to—; greet—; guide—; hail—; harbor—; implicate—; inform—; interrogate—-; investigate—; mislead—; question—; receive—; regard—; salute—; snarl at—; trail—; usher in—; victimize—; welcome—.

Thesaurus
Jim Crow, Uitlander, alien, apartheid, auslander, barbarian, color bar, deracine, displaced person, division, emigre, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, exile, foreign devil, foreigner, gringo, immigrant, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, narrowness, newcomer, out-group, outcast, outlander, outlaw, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, refugee, seclusion, segregation, separation, snobbishness, the Wandering Jew, tightness, tramontane, transient, ultramontane, visitor, wanderer, xenophobia

Etymology
estrangier:, from extraneus: (whence also English estrange:), from extra:.

Translations

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 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 知らない人
 * Macedonian: незнајник, незнаник
 * Persian: غریبه
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 * Russian: незнакомец, незнакомка,  ,
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 * Welsh: dieithryn


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 * Hindi: विदेशी, अन्यदेशीय
 * Indonesian: orang asing
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 * Macedonian: новодојденец, дојденец
 * Russian: новоприбывший
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 * Swedish:, nykomling


 * : buitenstaander, vreemdeling

Anagrams

 * granters