stranger

[streyn-jer] / ˈstreɪn dʒər /

NOUN

person who is unfamiliar

Synonyms

STRONGEST

alien foreigner guest immigrant intruder newcomer outsider visitor

STRONG

drifter interloper migrant outlander squatter transient unknown wanderer

WEAK

foreign body incomer itinerant person migratory worker new arrival out-of-stater outcomer party crasher perfect stranger uninvited person unknown person

Antonyms

STRONGEST

citizen local national native

WEAK

acquaintance friend

Example Sentences

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Now into the mix comes a divinely handsome stranger who bonds with Adora when they happen to sit next to each other at the ballet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Or can Emma Roddick - who was on the opposite side of the SNP's broad tent to Ewing on a host of issues - make this one of the stranger "SNP hold" results on record?

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Swan, herself no stranger to the wellness-podcast circuit, was careful to insert the caveat that the film is “not a quote-unquote ‘scientific study.’

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

Khong is no stranger to feeding life’s great losses and unknowables through the processing plant of fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

I doubt I could send a message to a complete stranger; and just ’cause she sees it doesn’t mean she’ll wanna talk to me.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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