Usually means: Person not known to you.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. stranger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stranger: Merriam-Webster
  3. stranger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stranger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stranger: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stranger: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stranger, stranger: Wordnik
  8. stranger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stranger: Wiktionary
  10. stranger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stranger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stranger: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Stranger, stranger, the stranger: Dictionary.com
  14. stranger: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Stranger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stranger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stranger: Rhymezone
  19. stranger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stranger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. STRANGER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. stranger: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stranger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stranger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. stranger: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Stranger (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stranger: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. The Stranger, stranger: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Stranger, stranger: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. stranger: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stranger: Easton Bible
  2. Stranger: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stranger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
noun:  An outsider or foreigner.
noun:  One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
noun:  A newcomer.
noun:  (humorous) Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
noun:  (obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
noun:  (law) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
noun:  (obsolete) A superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea, the guttering of a candle, etc.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To estrange; to alienate.

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