meaning of stranger
1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
2. One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
3. One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
4. One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
5. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
6. 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.
7. To estrange; to alienate.
8. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
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