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Definition of Stranger

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. Related Definitions: Acquaintance, Act, Actual, Admitted, Against, Alienate, An, As, At, Belonging, But, Comes, Communication, Considered, Contract, Country, Distance, Estrange, Family, Fellowship, Foreign, Foreigner, From, Gentleman, Gives, Good, Guest, Having, He, Hence, Home, Household, In, Intermeddler, Intruder, Is, Land, Levy, Me, Mere, Merely, Mortgage, No, Not, Of, One, Or, Party, Place, Pledge, Possession, Privy, Right, Same, Strange, Stranger, The, Title, To, Unacquainted, Unknown, Visitor, Where, Who, Whose, Without

Stranger Quotations Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. Karel Capek 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 What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. Lord Byron 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 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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