Stranger vs Outsidera - What's the difference?
stranger | outsidera |
(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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stranger
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* See strangeNoun
(en noun)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.}}
