stranger

Definition

  • noun: someone who you have not met before or do not know
  • noun: one who is 'strange'
  • + 'to'
  • synonyms: jim crow, uitlander, alien

Examples

  • “Excuse me. Do you know where the library is?” “I'm sorry. I'm a 'stranger' here myself.”

  • She is 'no stranger to' controversy. [=she has been involved in controversy before]

  • He is a 'stranger to' losing. [=he does not know what losing is like]

Movie quotes

  • (..) Swear canst work in the ground so fast? Once more remove, good friends - Oh day and night, but this is wondrous strange - And therefore as a stranger give it welcome There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy - But come, here as before, swear - Swear (..)
    2015 Hamlet