English-French translations for stranger

  • étranger
    Nous sommes loin d’être des étrangers. We are not strangers to each other. Le bon sens est étranger à l'Union européenne. Common sense is a stranger to the European Union. En réalité, très peu rencontrent des étrangers à travers l'internet. In reality, very few meet strangers off the Internet.
  • étranger étrangère
  • étrangèreLa question du Cachemire n’est pas étrangère à cette Assemblée. This House is no stranger to the Kashmir issue. La France doit en assumer sa part de responsabilité, parce qu’elle n’est pas étrangère à cela, mais elle n’est pas la seule. France must take on its share of the responsibility for this, because it is no stranger to that kind of attitude, but it is not the only one.
  • inconnu
    Nous devons préparer chaque enfant à ce genre de cas, de la même façon que nous leur apprenons à ne pas monter dans la voiture d'un inconnu ou à ne pas accepter de bonbons d'un étranger. We need to prepare every child in advance for such an occurrence, just as we teach them not to get into an unfamiliar car or accept sweets from strangers.
  • inconnue

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

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