Strangerとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹeɪndʒɚ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹeɪndʒə/
• 韻: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)

形容詞

stranger

1. comparative form of strange: more strange

   Truth is stranger than fiction.

関連する語

• See strange

名詞

stranger (複数形 strangers)

1. A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

   That gentleman is a stranger to me.  Children are taught not to talk to strangers.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

2. An outsider or foreigner.
   • 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     I am a most poor woman and a stranger, / Born out of your dominions.

   • 1726, George Granville, Written in a Garden in the North

     Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.

   • 1961, Robert A. Heinlein: “Stranger in a Strange Land”
3. One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
4. A newcomer.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The 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.

5. (humorous) One who has not been seen for a long time.

   Hello, stranger!

6. (obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger.

7. (law) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.

   Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.

8. (obsolete) 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.

下位語

• (outsider, foreigner): alien, foreigner, foreign national, non-national/nonnational, non-resident/nonresident, outsider; see also Thesaurus:foreigner or Thesaurus:outcast

同意語

• (person whom one does not know):
• (newcomer): newbie, newcomer; see also Thesaurus:newcomer or Thesaurus:beginner

反意語

• (person whom one does not know): acquaintance, friend
• (outsider, foreigner): compatriot, countryman, fellow citizen, fellow countryman, national, resident
• (newcomer):

派生語

• be no stranger to
• don't be a stranger
• stranger danger

参考

• myall

動詞

stranger (三人称単数 現在形 strangers, 現在分詞 strangering, 過去形および過去分詞形 strangered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 1, scene 1]:

     Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oath