Definition of stranger

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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..

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Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook..
Sojournment :: Sojournment (n.) Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler..
Neglect :: Neglect (adv.) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers..
Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) A house for the reception of strangers.
Polemarch :: Polemarch (n.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer..
Hotel :: Hotel (n.) A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class..
Attention :: Attention (n.) An act of civility or courtesy; care for the comfort and pleasure of others; as, attentions paid to a stranger..
Estranger :: Estranger (n.) One who estranges.
Pilgrim :: Pilgrim (n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
Fren :: Fren (a.) A stranger.
Sojourn :: Sojourn (v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry..
Strangled :: Stranger (v. t.) To estrange; to alienate.
Notice :: Notice (v. t.) To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice 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..
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..
Introduction :: Introduction (n.) The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another..
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..
Alien :: Alien (n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage..
Unwonted :: Unwonted (a.) Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers..
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.
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