Stranger
Stran´ger
n. | 1. | One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. |
| 2. | One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. |
| 2. | One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. |
| 3. | One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. |
| 3. | (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy. |
| 4. | One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. |
v. t. | 1. | To estrange; to alienate. |
STRANGER, persons, contracts. This word has several significations. 1. A
person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is
more properly applied, until he becomes naturalized. 2. A person who is not
privy to an act or contract; example, he who is a stranger to the issue,
shall not take advantage of the verdict. Bro. Ab. Record, pl. 3; Vin. Ab.
h.t. pl. 1 and vide Com. Dig. Abatement, H 54.
2. When a man undertakes to do a thing, and a stranger interrupts him,
this is no excuse. Com. Dig. Condition, L 14. When a party undertakes that a
stranger shall do a certain thing, he becomes liable as soon as the stranger
refuses to perform it. Bac. Ab. Conditions, Q 4.
To see a stranger in your dream,
symbolizes the part of yourself that is repressed and hidden.
Jim Crow,
Uitlander,
apartheid,
auslander,
barbarian,
color bar,
deracine,
displaced person,
division,
emigre,
ethnocentrism,
exclusiveness,
exile,
foreign devil,
gringo,
immigrant,
insularity,
insulation,
isolation,
know-nothingism,
narrowness,
out-group,
outcast,
outlaw,
parochialism,
persona non grata,
quarantine,
race hatred,
racial segregation,
refugee,
seclusion,
segregation,
separation,
snobbishness,
the Wandering Jew,
tightness,
tramontane,
transient,
ultramontane,
visitor,
wanderer,
xenophobia