English-Danish translations for stranger

• fremmed
  Vold mod mænd foregår ofte i det offentlige rum og udføres af en anden mand, der ofte er en fremmed. Violence against men typically happens in public, perpetrated by another man, often a stranger.
  Selv om større katastrofer finder sted på andre kontinenter, er Europa heller ikke fremmed for dem. Although disasters on a larger scale occur on other continents, Europe is no stranger to them either.
  Vi kan så se den ukendte blandt os ikke som en fremmed, men som en broder eller søster i den menneskelige familie, Guds familie. Then do we behold the stranger amongst us not as an alien, but as a brother or sister in the human family, the family of God.
• udlænding
  Havde De forestillet Dem i 1995, at ministrene kunne blive enige om, at udlændinge kunne komme på besøg for at se, hvor langt De er på undervisningsområdet? Could you have imagined, in 1995, that ministers would ever have agreed to let strangers come and check up on their quality levels in education?
  Udlændinge, som banker på vores dør, kommer som oftest fra lande, som helt og aldeles har spillet fallit, når det drejer sig om at sikre befolkningen et anstændigt liv eller blot brødføde denne. The strangers who come knocking at our door more often than not come from countries which have completely failed to let their population live decently, or even to feed it.

Definition of stranger

• A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance
• An outsider or foreigner
• One not admitted to communion or fellowship
• One who has not been seen for a long time
• One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor
• One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right
• 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
• To estrange; to alienate

Examples

• Truth is stranger than fiction
• Children are taught not to talk to strangers
• Hello, stranger!
• Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title

Related words

• strange