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stranger

/ˈstɹeɪndʒə/ · adjective

Meaning

  1. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
  2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
  3. Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
  4. Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
  5. Belonging to another country; foreign.
  6. Reserved; distant in deportment.
  7. A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
  8. An outsider or foreigner.
  9. One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
  10. A newcomer.
  11. One who has not been seen for a long time.
  12. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
  13. To estrange; to alienate.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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