That it should be pitching for the most coveted prizes in cinema is a far stranger fiction than the story itself.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Quotations
a stranger in a strange landBible: Exodus
In other languages
stranger
British English: stranger /ˈstreɪndʒə/ NOUN
A stranger is someone you have not met before or do not know at all. If two people are strangers, they have never met or do not know each other at all.
Telling a complete stranger about your life is difficult.
American English: stranger
Arabic: غَرِيب
Brazilian Portuguese: desconhecido
Chinese: 陌生人
Croatian: stranac
Czech: cizí člověk
Danish: fremmed
Dutch: vreemdeling
European Spanish: desconocido
Finnish: muukalainen
French: inconnu
German: Fremder
Greek: ξένος άνθρωπος
Italian: estraneo
Japanese: 知らない人
Korean: 낯선 사람
Norwegian: fremmed
Polish: nieznajomy
European Portuguese: desconhecido
Romanian: străin
Russian: незнакомец
Latin American Spanish: desconocido
Swedish: främling
Thai: คนแปลกหน้า
Turkish: yabancı
Ukrainian: незнайомець
Vietnamese: người lạ
All related terms of 'stranger'
selcouth
strange
strange
Something that is strange is unusual or unexpected , and makes you feel slightly nervous or afraid .
random stranger
A stranger is someone you have never met before.
stranger danger
the potential or perceived risk posed by unknown people to children and about which it may be advisable to warn them
stranger things
You can use thing to refer to any object, feature, or event when you cannot, need not, or do not want to refer to it more precisely .
complete stranger
A stranger is someone you have never met before.
Chinese translation of 'stranger'
stranger
(ˈstreɪndʒəʳ)
n(c)
(= unknown person) 陌生人 (mòshēngrén) (个(個), gè)
(from another area) 异(異)乡(鄉)人 (yìxiāngrén) (个(個), gè)
they are strangers他们(們)互相不认(認)识(識) (tāmen hùxiāng bù rènshi)
to be a stranger to sth很不习(習)惯(慣)某事 (hěn bù xíguàn mǒushì)
strange
(streɪndʒ)
adj
(= odd) 奇怪的 (qíguài de)
(= unfamiliar)[person, place]陌生的 (mòshēng de)
1 (noun)
Definition
any person whom one does not know
Sometimes I feel like I'm living with a stranger.
Synonyms
unknown person
2 (noun)
Definition
a person who is new to a particular place
Being a stranger in town can be a painful experience.
Synonyms
newcomer
He must be a newcomer to town.
incomer
foreigner
She was a foreigner and wouldn't understand.
guest
visitor
unknown
alien
I never took citizenship so I was a resident alien.
new arrival
newbie (slang)
outlander
idiom
See a stranger to something
related words
related phobiaxenophobia
Quotation
a stranger in a strange land [Bible: Exodus]
Additional synonyms
in the sense of alien
Definition
a person who is a citizen of a country other than the one in which he or she lives
I never took citizenship so I was a resident alien.