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

  • (..) Eleanor, you must remember that Anna went against our laws. She went alone outside into the devil's playground. She was not the responsibility of these two strangers. We'll deal with them later. Now we must pray. And then I saw them... ...from whose presence earth and heaven fled away. (..)
    2006 Silent Hill