1 ~ (to sb) a person that you do not know:
There was a complete stranger sitting at my desk. * They got on well together although they were total strangers. * We've told our daughter not to speak to strangers. * She remained a stranger to me.
2 ~ (to...) a person who is in a place that they have not been in before:
Sorry, I don't know where the bank is. I'm a stranger here myself. * He must have been a stranger to the town.
IDIOMS
be no / a stranger to sth (formal) to be familiar/not familiar with sth because you have/have not experienced it many times before:
He is no stranger to controversy.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stranger is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is stranger a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, stranger is tagged as noun.
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