stranger

strang‧er S2 W2 / streɪndʒə $ -ər / 名词 [可数名词]

1 someone that you do not know :

Children must not talk to strangers.

perfect/complete/total stranger (= used to emphasize that you do not know them )

Julie finds it easy to speak to complete strangers. ► Do not use stranger to mean ‘a person from another country’. Use foreigner or, more politely, say that someone is from abroad/overseas .

2 be no stranger to something to have had a lot of a particular kind of experience :

a politician who is no stranger to controversy

3 someone in a new and unfamiliar place :

‘Where’s the station?’ ‘Sorry, I’m a stranger here myself.’

4 hello, stranger! spoken used to greet someone who you have not seen for a long time

5 don’t be a stranger! spoken used when someone is leaving to invite them back to see you soon

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a complete/perfect/total stranger (= used to emphasize that you do not know the person ) Really, I don’t know why I’m revealing all this to a complete stranger.

a virtual stranger (= someone you hardly know ) I hadn’t seen him for so long that he seemed like a virtual stranger.

a passing stranger (= one you pass in the street ) Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you.

a mysterious stranger She never knew who the mysterious stranger was who had helped her that night.