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Gust vs Stranger - What's the difference?

gust | stranger |

As nouns the difference between gust and stranger

is that gust is pleasure 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.

gust

English

Etymology 1

Apparently from (etyl) gustr , though not recorded before Shakespeare.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
  • Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion etc.).
    • (Francis Bacon)
    Synonyms
    * windflaw

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To blow in gusts.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gustus ‘taste’. For the verb, compare (etyl) (lena) gustare, (etyl) gustare, (etyl) gustar.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
  • Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.
  • * 1942': ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Sava with solemn '''gust . — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1050)
  • Intellectual taste; fancy.
  • * Dryden
    • A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To taste.
  • (obsolete) To have a relish for.
    • Related terms
    * disgust

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    stranger

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (strange)
  • * Truth is stranger than fiction. (English proverb)

    • Derived terms

    * See strange

    Related terms

    * See strange

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • * (1666-1735)
  • *:Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
  • *1961', : “”
  • A newcomer.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] 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 a stranger' s mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
  • (lb) One who has not been seen for a long time.
  • :
  • (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.
  • :

    • Synonyms

    * (person whom one does not know) * alien, foreigner, foreign national, non-national/nonnational, non-resident/nonresident, outsider * (newcomer) newbie, newcomer

    Antonyms

    * (person whom one does not know) acquaintance, friend * compatriot, countryman, fellow citizen, fellow countryman, national, resident * (newcomer)

    Derived terms

    * be no stranger to * don't be a stranger * stranger danger

    See also

    * myall

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To estrange; to alienate.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Anagrams

    * granters