Definition of Stranger

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Stranger

One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.

One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.

One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.

One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.

One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

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.

To estrange; to alienate.

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Stranger Quotations

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord Byron

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Never floss with a stranger.
Joan Rivers

Stranger Translations

stranger in Dutch is vreemdeling, onbekende, vreemde
stranger in German is Fremdling, Fremder, Fremder, Unbekannter
stranger in Latin is hospes
stranger in Norwegian is fremmed
stranger in Portuguese is desconhecido
stranger in Spanish is forastero

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