In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from astranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page263:
The first thing that strikes thestranger is the sharpness of the curves on the metre gauge; it is not unusual for a long train to be travelling in three directions at once, and the engine is frequently in full view of the windows of the ninth or tenth carriage.
2023 June 17, Emma Smith, “Malta 0-4 England”, inBBC Sport[2]:
Wearing number 66 for his club side, Alexander-Arnold is nostranger to an unusual shirt number. Regardless, the sight of the right-back wearing 10 in central midfield for England was guaranteed to catch the eye.
(humorous) Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
Hello,stranger!
(obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
1667,John Milton, “Book V”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
To honour and receive / Our heavenlystranger.
(law) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
Actual possession of land gives a good title against astranger having no title.
1980 August 9, Jil Clark, “Lesbian Mother Fights For Son”, inGay Community News, page 1:
[Judge Beverly] Davis then granted the adoption to the new wife of the boy's father; this action designated the boy's natural mother a "legalstranger," terminating all rights the mother had to visit her child.
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