STRANGER

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stranger substantiv

1. străin, necunoscut;

(glumeţ) the little stranger noul-născut;

to make a stranger of smb. a fi rece sau din cale afară de politicos cu cineva;

(despre membrii Camerei Comunelor) to spy / to see strangers a cere dezbateri secrete, a cere expulzarea publicului;

you are quite a stranger here te arăţi foarte rar pe aici.

2. străin (de ceva), persoană care nu are noţiunea unui lucru;

he is a stranger to fear nu cunoaşte frica;

he is no stranger to sorrow a cunoscut durerea / necazul.

3. vocativ (amer. fam.) amice! prietene! domnule!

4. (jur.) terţ, care nu e parte.

5. (înv.) străin, venetic, om din altă ţară.

Oh, are you aware, Mr. Rochester, that a stranger has arrived here since you left this morning?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Agatha asked a question, to which the stranger only replied by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Ahem!” said the stranger, “that is my name.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She had begun to tell him of what had happened, when the stranger came up again.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Kirke welcomed me so kindly I felt at home at once, even in that big house full of strangers.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The two strangers were all this time looking on, and did not know what to say for wonder.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

He had gone off at a moment’s notice with this stranger, and no word has come from him since.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Go to the strangers who are within my land and destroy them all except the Lion," said the Wicked Witch.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

It is not well that her very thoughts go into the hands of strangers.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

"Well," said he, "we have brought you some strangers. How do you like them?"

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)