stranger

1. 1.

   anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

   Synonymsalienunknown

   Antonymsacquaintance

   Broaderintruder

   Narrowerforeigner
2. 2.

   an individual that one is not acquainted with

   Antonymsacquaintance

   Broaderperson

Other forms of stranger

plural

strangers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stranger

What does stranger mean?

stranger means "anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stranger?

stranger has 2 syllables: stran-ger. The stress falls on "stran". In IPA it is /ˈstɹeɪndʒɚ/.

What is another word for stranger?

Close synonyms include alien, unknown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of stranger?

The recorded antonyms are acquaintance, acquaintance.

Is stranger a common word?

stranger is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.