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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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“strangers”
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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