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Definition of stranger

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Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy..

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Notice :: Notice (v. t.) To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers..

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country..

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

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..

Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) A house for the reception of strangers.

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

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..

Unwonted :: Unwonted (a.) Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers..

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

Alienate :: Alienate (n.) A stranger; an alien.

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..

Hospitable :: Hospitable (a.) Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.

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..

Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession..

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..

Hospitable :: Hospitable (a.) Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites..

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

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..