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ADJECTIVE strange COMPARATIVE stranger SUPERLATIVE strangest
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stranger English

Meaning stranger meaning

What does stranger mean?
Definitions in simple English

stranger

A stranger is a person you don't know. Children should never talk to strangers. A stranger is an outsider, foreigner or newcomer.

stranger

anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found an individual that one is not acquainted with

Synonyms stranger synonyms

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Topics stranger topics

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  • What words refer to a person you don't know?

Examples stranger examples

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Simple sentences

I'm a stranger here.
Is it stranger to dream about a bow or about a rainbow?
Tom started talking to a stranger.
When Mary was spoken to by a stranger, she was at a loss for words.
I was a stranger in Boston.
A stranger spoke to me in the bus.
How did a total stranger know his name?
I doubled up with a stranger that night.
Having lived in the town, I'm not a stranger there.
The stranger was too surprised to speak.
The man was a total stranger.
Let's talk about what to do with the stranger.
The dog barks at a stranger.
The dog barked at the stranger.
A stranger asked the girl whether her father was at home or at his office.
The dog sniffed at the stranger.
Sorry, I'm a stranger here.
A stranger came up to me and asked the way.
A stranger came into the building.
A stranger spoke to me on the crowded bus.
A stranger spoke to me.

Movie subtitles

Why'd you piss at stranger's house?
Because life out there might be stranger than Hollywood could have ever dreamt up.
Why does he talk about me as if he's talking about a stranger?
When our neighbor's child, Sam Wol was sold, I thought it was just some stranger's problem.
Well, hello there, stranger.
Hm, hm, beautiful stranger, you haven't seen my wife?
The stranger has recovered.
Her life with the unloved husband in the house of pastor Talnoks and the weird arrival of a stranger to their home the strange effect of his words and his music and the excitement that threw her in the pastor's arms.
HE'S A STRANGER.
Apparitions, each stranger than the one before, were haunting him.
I'm a stranger here myself.
If you're a stranger here, Tom and me will show you the town.
So, some stranger dies and I have to be my own brother.
I don't know. I'm not exactly a stranger here.
Miles of docks wait day and night for strange cargo - and stranger men.
No, I'm a stranger here.
Pardon me. I'm a stranger here.
Them's fighting words, stranger.
Madame Mata Hari, may a perfect stranger offer her appreciation?
I don't accept bracelets from a stranger.
You're still a stranger to me, but that doesn't matter.
Welcome home, stranger.
Enter the mysterious stranger.
Flora, played by Gloria Stuart, is Dr Cranley's distressed daughter, who, we can tell, is very much in love with Jack Griffin, the stranger at the inn.
Meanwhile, back at the inn, the mysterious stranger is trying desperately to find a solution to an aspect of his experiment, one of many, that we're not too clear about as yet.
We now see that the stranger is capable of a furious outburst, and we'll see extreme violence, a portent of his obviously unstable and dangerous state.
Two weeks later a stranger arrives.
Right now I'm like a stranger.
You know, I'm a stranger in town.
You aren't her brother. Or a mere stranger.
Not her brother. Not a stranger.
All that Way for a stranger?
Sure. go on and laugh. There are stranger things than playing a record with your finger.
I beg you not to make a stranger of me.
Have you seen a stranger about here?

News and current affairs

The polling organization Gallup asked people in 135 countries whether they had, in the last month, donated money to a charity, volunteered their time to an organization, or helped a stranger.
Worldwide, more than 11 million people have put their names on donor registries for bone marrow, signifying their willingness to donate their marrow to a stranger.
A small but growing number of people have gone further still, donating a kidney to a stranger.
When they have an opportunity to share money with a stranger who has trusted him or her, non-cooperators keep all the money rather than share the largess.
They, too, know what it is like to be a refugee, an exile, a stranger.
But there are stranger aspects to Japan's sluggish economy. After the oil price hikes of 1974 and 1980, Japan's economy recovered through export-led growth.
But historical documents recently made available reveal something much stranger.
During nearly all her history, Russia was a stranger to law as a principle binding ruler and ruled.
But this round of China-bashing appears stranger than the last one.
Standing next to you, however, is a very large stranger.
The only way you can prevent the trolley from killing five people is by pushing this large stranger off the footbridge, in front of the trolley.
If you push the stranger off, he will be killed, but you will save the other five.
When asked what you should do in these circumstances, most people say that it would be wrong to push the stranger.
Moreover, the minority of subjects who did consider that it would be right to push the stranger off the footbridge took longer to reach this judgment than those who said that doing so would be wrong.
SANTIAGO - Few policy debates are stranger than the one concerning capital controls.
From then on, the sponsors have an implicit right to check on the user's progress, offering support or criticism far more compelling than any stranger could.
But there are stranger aspects to Japan's sluggish economy.
The Kremlin is no stranger to twisting the truth to fit its needs.
What religion should teach us is not how to hate, but - to borrow again from Confucius - how to develop societies that look after and welcome the poor, the stranger, and the oppressed.
The thought of pushing the stranger off the footbridge elicits these responses.

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