Noun

(en noun)

Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business.

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(derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.

(sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

* (1666-1735)

*: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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(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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