different between acquaintances vs stranger

English

Pronunciation

Noun

acquaintances

1. plural of acquaintance

English

Etymology

From Middle English straunger, from Old French estrangier (“foreign, alien”), from estrange, from Latin extraneus (“foreign, external”) (whence also English estrange), from extra (“outside of”). Displaced native Old English fremde. Cognate with French étranger (“foreigner, stranger”) and Spanish extranjero (“foreigner”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st?e?nd??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st?e?nd??/
• Rhymes: -e?nd??(?)

Adjective

stranger

1. comparative form of strange: more strange

Related terms

• See strange

Noun

stranger (plural strangers)

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

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

6. (obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
7. (law) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.

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.

Hyponyms

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

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

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

Translations

See also

• myall

Verb

stranger (third-person singular simple present strangers, present participle strangering, simple past and past participle strangered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To estrange; to alienate.

Anagrams

• granters, regrants