You can picture a stranger as someone from outside your circle — a face you've never met, who belongs to the world beyond the people and places you already know.
From the word’s history
From Latin extraneus 'external, from outside' (from extra 'outside'), via Old French estrangier 'foreigner'. A stranger is literally 'one from outside' — outside your circle, your town, your acquaintance.
來自拉丁文 extraneus「外來的、外面的」（源自 extra「外面」），經古法文 estrangier「外地人」而來。stranger 字面就是「從外面來的人」——你圈子外、你城鎮外、你認識範圍外的人。
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原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
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strangernoun詞源 2/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
- 1
A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
- That gentleman is a stranger to me.
- Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
- 2
An outsider or foreigner.
- I am a most poor woman and a stranger, / Born out of your dominions.
- Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
- 3
One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
- 4
A newcomer.
- […] 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.
- The first thing that strikes the stranger is the sharpness of the curves on the metre gauge; it is not unusual for a long train to be travelling in three directions at once, and the engine is frequently in full view of the windows of the ninth or tenth carriage.
- 5
Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
- Hello, stranger!
- 6
obsoleteOne not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
- To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger.
- 7
lawOne not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
- Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.
- [Judge Beverly] Davis then granted the adoption to the new wife of the boy's father; this action designated the boy's natural mother a "legal stranger," terminating all rights the mother had to visit her child.
- 8
obsoleteA superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea, the guttering of a candle, etc.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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A moth, Lacanobia blenna
strangerverb詞源 2/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
- 1
obsoleteTo estrange; to alienate.
- Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oath
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