1. a person whom one does not know or with whom one is not familiar
2. a person who does not know, or is not known in, a particular place or community

1. more strange; comparative form of strange

Examples

• Don’t talk to strangers when you’re walking alone.
• She felt like a stranger in her own hometown after being away for ten years.
• The stranger asked for directions to the nearest gas station.
• He was a stranger to the customs of the new country.
• The truth is often stranger than fiction.
• This weather is getting stranger every day.