What is the meaning of stranger?

Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found.
- synonyms: alien, unknown
An individual that one is not acquainted with.

Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.
- usage: "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has"
- synonyms: strange, unusual
Not known before.
- usage: "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house"
- synonyms: strange, unknown
Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
- usage: "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"
- synonyms: foreign, strange

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