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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Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people..
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..
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..
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..
Alienate :: Alienate (n.) A stranger; an alien.
Notice :: Notice (v. t.) To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers..
Foreigner :: Foreigner (n.) A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger..
Sojournment :: Sojournment (n.) Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler..
Hospitaler :: Hospitaler (n.) One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers..
Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..
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..
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..
Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country..
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..
Tramontane :: Tramontane (n.) One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger..
Uncuth :: Uncuth (n.) A stranger.
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..
Aubaine :: Aubaine (n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
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