stranger
/ˈstɹeɪndʒə/ · adjective
Meaning
- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
- Belonging to another country; foreign.
- Reserved; distant in deportment.
- A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
- An outsider or foreigner.
- One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
- A newcomer.
- One who has not been seen for a long time.
- One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
- To estrange; to alienate.
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