Stranger
(noun)
- A person whom one does not know or with whom one is not familiar.
- A person who is not a member of one's family or household.
- A person who is not a citizen of the place where they are.
Origin:
From old french estrange ("foreign, alien"), from latin extraneus ("stranger, outsider, foreigner"), from extra ("outsid.e")
Examples:
- The stranger at the door asked for directions.
- The young man felt like a stranger in a foreign land.
- Strangers on a Train is a novel by Patricia Highsmith.
- I felt like a stranger in my own home.
- I couldn't help but feel like a stranger in the city I grew up in.