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noun

Stranger n.

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."

(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." "My child is yet a stranger in the world." "I was no stranger to the original."

One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. "To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger."

(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.

adjective

Strange adj. (compar. stranger; superl. strangest)

Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." "One of the strange queen's lords." "I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues."

Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic. "So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights."

Not before known, heard, or seen; new. "Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you."

Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. "He is sick of a strange fever." "Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me."

Reserved; distant in deportment. "She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee."

Backward; slow. (Obs.) "Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause."

Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. "In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange." Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation. "Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below."

Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel.

Strange woman (Script.), a harlot.

To make it strange.

(a)

To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it.

(b)

To make it a matter of difficulty. (Obs.)

To make strange, To make one's self strange.

(a)

To profess ignorance or astonishment.

(b)

To assume the character of a stranger.