Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of stranger is as below...

Usher :: Usher (v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room..

Neglect :: Neglect (adv.) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers..

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance..

Scavage :: Scavage (n.) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts..

Neglect :: Neglect (v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers..

Xenelasia :: Xenelasia (n.) A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners..

Hospitaler :: Hospitaler (n.) One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers..

Sojournment :: Sojournment (n.) Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler..

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.

Know :: Know (v. i.) To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization..

Xenodochy :: Xenodochy (n.) Reception of strangers; hospitality.

Hospitality :: Hospitality (n.) The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality..

Butlerage :: Butlerage (n.) A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.

Aubaine :: Aubaine (n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.

Prytaneum :: Prytaneum (n.) A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers..

Usher :: Usher (n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc..

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..

Estranger :: Estranger (n.) One who estranges.

Tramontane :: Tramontane (n.) One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger..

Random Fonts

Most Popular