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Definition of Stranger
Stran´ger | n. | 1. | One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. | | 2. | One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. | | 2. | One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. | | 3. | One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. | | 3. | (Law) 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. | | 4. | One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. | | v. t. | 1. | To estrange; to alienate. |
Related Words
Jim Crow, Uitlander, apartheid, auslander, barbarian, color bar, deracine, displaced person, division, emigre, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, exile, foreign devil, gringo, immigrant, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, narrowness, out-group, outcast, outlaw, parochialism, persona non grata, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, refugee, seclusion, segregation, separation, snobbishness, the Wandering Jew, tightness, tramontane, transient, ultramontane, visitor, wanderer, xenophobia
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