Meaning

comparative form of strange: more strange.

Definitions by Sense

1. comparative form of strange: more strange
2. A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
3. An outsider or foreigner.
4. One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
5. A newcomer.
6. (humorous) Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
7. (obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
8. (law) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.

Example Sentences

Truth is stranger than fiction.

That gentleman is a stranger to me.

Children are taught not to talk to strangers.

In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

Our love (our love, our love) / Our love is in danger (danger) / And if you don't hurry home / I might give it to a stranger

I am a most poor woman and a stranger, / Born out of your dominions.

Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.

I like to be a stranger myself—it was my destiny; but I wish to be the only stranger.

Word Forms

• strangers
• strangering
• strangered

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When Should You Use Stranger?

Use stranger when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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