strangers

Noun

stranger (plural strangers)

1. A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
   • That gentleman is a stranger to me.
2. An outsider or foreigner.
   • I am a most poor woman and a stranger, / Born out of your dominions.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
3. One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
4. A newcomer.
   • […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   newbie

5. (humorous) Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
   • Hello, stranger!
6. (obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
   • To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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