stranger
US: /ˈstɹeɪndʒɝ/
UK: /stɹˈeɪndʒɐ/
UK: /stɹˈeɪndʒɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
stranger /'streindʤə/
- danh từ
- người lạ mặt, người xa lạ
- to make a stranger of somebody: đối đãi với ai như người xa lạ
- I am a stranger here: tôi không quen biết vùng này
- he is no stranger to me: tôi quen anh ta lắm
- he is a stranger to me: tôi không quen anh ta
- he is a stranger to fear: sợ là một điều xa lạ đối với anh ta
- the little stranger: đứa trẻ mới đẻ
- người nước ngoài
- người lạ mặt, người xa lạ
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 ~ (to sb) a person that you do not know: There was a complete stranger sitting at my desk. + They got on well together although they were total strangers. + We've told our daughter not to speak to strangers. + She remained a stranger to me.
2 ~ (to ...) a person who is in a place that they have not been in before: Sorry, I don't know where the bank is. I'm a stranger here myself. + He must have been a stranger to the town.
Idioms: be no / a stranger to sth (formal) to be familiar/not familiar with sth because you have/have not experienced it many times before: He is no stranger to controversy.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
foreigner, outlander, alien, newcomer, visitor:
The people in these parts don't take kindly to strangers.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
complete, perfect, total | virtual | passing
PREP.
~ to
He was a complete stranger to me. She was a stranger to the place
PHRASES
almost a stranger
His years abroad had made him almost a stranger with his family.
| a stranger here
You're a stranger here, aren't you?
| a stranger in/to these parts
A stranger to these parts would be confused by some of the local customs.
Concise English dictionary
strangers'streɪdʒə(r)
noun
+anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
stranger|strangeststreɪndʒ
adj.
+being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
+not known before
+relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
