stranger
stranger is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 30 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger. Milton.
- 2.(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.
- 3.To estrange; to alienate. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abroad
- alien
- alienage
- alienism
- beyond
- body
- creole
- element
- emigrant
- exceptional
- exteriority
- extraneous
- extrinsicality
- foreign
- foreigner
- greaser
- immigrant
- inadmissible
- interloper
- intruder
- newcomer
- outsider
- over
- sea
- slant
- substance
- tenderfoot
- tramontane
- ulterior
- ultramontane
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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