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“stranger”
strange (adjective), stranger, strangest; more strange, most strange
1. Relating to what is different from what is usual, normal, or expected: While Jill was walking in the forest with Jim, they saw a strange creature which frightened them.
Andrea had a strange feeling when the phone rang and woke her up at 2 a.m.
Strange as it may seem, Jerome doesn't like to walk barefooted on the grass.
2. A reference to something that is not being known, heard, or seen before: Jane's new acquaintance spoke a language that was strange to her.When Frank's family went on a trip, they arrived in a strange town which they had never encountered before.
3. Etymology: from Latin extraneus, "foreign, unfamiliar, external, from without; outside" and then via French, in which the Latin x sound was changed to an -s sound.
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extra, extra-, extro-, extr-, exter-
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1. An unknown person: Alex felt that everyone at the party was a stranger to him because he didn’t recognize anyone.
2. An outsider, a newcomer, or a foreigner: Jerome realized that it is hard for a stranger to make friends in the town that he had moved to for a new job.
3. Etymology: based on extra, "outward, outside"; and goes back to extranearius, a Latin derivative of extraneus and extraneare, "to alienate".
2. An outsider, a newcomer, or a foreigner: Jerome realized that it is hard for a stranger to make friends in the town that he had moved to for a new job.
3. Etymology: based on extra, "outward, outside"; and goes back to extranearius, a Latin derivative of extraneus and extraneare, "to alienate".
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extra, extra-, extro-, extr-, exter-
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“stranger”
(Modern Latin: from Greek, xenon, "stranger"; gas)
(Greek > Latin: convert; stranger, one who has come over; to come to; to surrender; to associate with)
(Greek: foreign, foreigner; alien; different; extraneous; strange, stranger; and by extension, guest)
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“stranger”
anonymous stranger (s) (noun), anonymous strangers
An unnamed stranger is someone who is not known and whose name has obviously not been revealed.
Could this be a pleonasm or a redundancy?
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-onym, -onymy, -onymic, -onymically, -onymous, -onymously, -nym
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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