Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Stranger (-'d, -'s, -s)
strange (-r, -st)strangle (-s)
stranger (-'d, -'s, -s), n. [see strange, adj.] (webplay: another, bear, country, foreigner, multitudes, neighboring, province, sun, town, unacquainted, unknown, world).
- Unknown person; non-acquaintance; non-associate; [fig.] one who cannot be trusted; enemy.
- Outcast; exile; unaccepted person; one who doesn't fit in; [fig.] non-believer; non-Christian.
- Foreigner; one who is unacquainted; newcomer; one who is unfamiliar with certain things.
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