stranger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person you do not know.

   My parents told me never to talk to strangers.

2. 2
   noun

   Someone who is new to a place or does not belong there.

   As a stranger in the city, she often got lost.

3. 3
   adj

   Comparative of strange: more strange.

   Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.

From Middle English straunger, from Old French estrangier (“foreign, alien”), from estrange, from Latin extraneus (“foreign, external”) (whence also English estrange), from extra (“outside of”). Cognate with French étranger (“foreigner, stranger”) and Spanish extranjero (“foreigner”). Displaced native Old English fremde (literally “strange or unfamiliar person”).

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