stranger

stranger
[[t]stre͟ɪnʤə(r)[/t]]
strangers
1) N-COUNT A stranger is someone you have never met before.

Telling a complete stranger about your life is difficult...

Sometimes I feel like I'm living with a stranger.

2) N-PLURAL If two people are strangers, they do not know each other.

The women knew nothing of the dead girl. They were strangers.

3) N-COUNT If you are a stranger in a place, you do not know the place well.

`You don't know much about our town, do you?' - `No, I'm a stranger here.'

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4) N-COUNT: oft with brd-neg, N to n If you are a stranger to something, you have had no experience of it or do not understand it.

He is no stranger to controversy...

We were both strangers to diplomatic life.

5) See also strange

English dictionary. 2008.

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