strangers

NOUN

person who is unfamiliar

Synonyms

STRONGEST

alien foreigner guest immigrant intruder newcomer outsider visitor

STRONG

drifter interloper migrant outlander squatter transient unknown wanderer

WEAK

foreign body incomer itinerant person migratory worker new arrival out-of-stater outcomer party crasher perfect stranger uninvited person unknown person

Antonyms

STRONGEST

citizen local national native

WEAK

acquaintance friend

Example Sentences

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strangers

No livestream could have delivered that shiver, or the silence of hundreds of strangers falling still, then gasping, in the same instant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

These two strangers are both despondent and desperate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

What information can strangers find out about me at the click of a button?

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

And it is still, for me and for the strangers arriving on its shore, the difference between drowning and being born.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Mudd then attempted to send the manhunters on a wild goose chase, claiming the strangers asked for directions to a farm to the west.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson