stranger
suomi-englanti sanakirjastranger englannista suomeksi
vieras, muukalainen
tuntematon
Substantiivi
stranger englanniksi
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A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
(RQ:Besant Ivory Gate)Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 8)
(quote-text)|title=upon Several Occasions/22|Written in a Garden in the North
(quote-journal)
One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
A newcomer.
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp) 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.
(quote-web)
One who has not been seen for a long time.
One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
A superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea, the guttering of a candle, etc.
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
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