Another word for stranger
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Noun
A person coming from another country or into a new community
- A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.
- (Ecology) An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.
- A foreigner
- A person from a foreign country.
- One who is from outside a particular group or community; an outsider.
- A person from another country, thought of as an outsider; alien
- A stranger.
- A person from a foreign country; a foreigner.
- A foreigner; alien; stranger
- A contestant given little chance of winning; a long shot.
- One who is not part of a community or organization.
- A newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community.
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© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Another word for stranger
Noun
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- A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.
- One who is from outside a particular group or community; an outsider.
- A person from another country, thought of as an outsider; alien
- A contestant given little chance of winning; a long shot.
- One not a member of or in sympathy with a given group
- A newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community.
- (Ecology) An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.
- A person from another and very different family, people, or place.
- A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.
- A stranger.
- A person from a foreign country; a foreigner.
- A foreigner; alien; stranger
- Used to characterize someone as not from the vicinity.
- A visitor from another, usually distant, town or city
- A migratory bird or other animal.
- A person, bird, or animal that migrates
- An organism, especially an animal, that moves from one region to another (as for breeding) or that has established itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
- Someone or something making a visit
- One that visits:
- A visiting performer, speaker, or contestant, as on a radio or television program.
- A person who appears or performs on a program by special invitation
- One who is a recipient of hospitality at the home or table of another.
- Someone who intrudes.
- A ship or other vessel used in such trade.
- A person who meddles in others' affairs
- One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.
- One who lives away from the locality of one's business, school, etc.
- A visitor, such as a tourist, from another state.
- A legal resident of one state who lives for a period of time in another state in order to attend school, for example.
- An insurance policy that protects movable property in transit or regularly subject to use in varying places.
- A person who changes his or her place of residence or work at frequent intervals; drifter; esp., a transient laborer
- A deposit of material in the vitreous humor of the eye, usually consisting of aggregations of cells or proteins that have detached from the retina, perceived as a spot or thread in the visual field.
- (Nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
- (Automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
- A person, often one without close friends or family ties, who moves about aimlessly from place to place
- A person who settles on public or unoccupied land
- A person or animal that squats, or crouches
- A person who occupies illegally a vacant house, building, etc.
- One who travels from place to place.
- (Ireland) a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
- (Physics) A transient phenomenon or property, especially a transient electric current.
- A transient person or thing
- One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time.
- (Informal) A person who attends a social affair without an invitation or attends a performance, etc. without paying admission
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