Follower vs Stranger - What's the difference?
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(literally) One who follows, comes after another.
Something that comes after another thing.
One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
An imitator, who follows another's example
A pursuer.
A machine part receiving motion from another
A man courting a maidservant.
Young cattle.
A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
(Australian rules football) Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position.
(colloquial, dated) A debt collector.
(strange)
* Truth is stranger than fiction. (English proverb)
A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
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*: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.
An outsider or foreigner.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I am a most poor woman and a stranger , / Born out of your dominions.
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*:Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
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A newcomer.
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, title= (lb) One who has not been seen for a long time.
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(lb) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger .
(lb) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
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As nouns the difference between follower and stranger
is that follower is (literally) one who follows, comes after another while stranger is a person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.As an adjective stranger is
(strange).As a verb stranger is
(obsolete|transitive) to estrange; to alienate.follower
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(wikipedia follower)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* leader * precursorDerived terms
* followership * nonfollowerstranger
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* See strangeNoun
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