stranger

About 11.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective comparative form of strange: more strange

   Truth is stranger than fiction.

2. noun A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

   That gentleman is a stranger to me.

3. noun An outsider or foreigner.
4. noun One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
5. noun A newcomer.
6. noun Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.

   Hello, stranger!

7. noun One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
8. noun One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.

   Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.

Similar words

unknown alien outsider outlander unsub foreigner odd foreign weird abroad

Often followed by

to in who and was than is had with

Word family

no stranger to no strangers to strangered strangering strangers