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# stranger

«stranger» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person you do not know** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stranger, strangers); also the comparative of strange (strange, stranger, strangest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person you do not know. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#m1)

2) A person who is new to a place: «I'm a stranger here». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#m2)

3) Comparative of «strange»: more unusual: «The story got stranger and stranger». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: most strangers are kind, but you don't go anywhere with a stranger, take things from them, or tell them personal information without a trusted adult saying it is okay; if a stranger makes you feel uncomfortable, say no, get away and tell an adult. If you are lost, ask a «safe stranger» for help: a police officer, a shop worker at the till, or a parent with children. Online: people you chat with may be strangers pretending. Phrases: stranger danger, a complete stranger, no stranger to, safe stranger, stranger than.

### examples

- Don't get into a car with a stranger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x1)
- A stranger asked me for directions, so I fetched my mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x2)
- If you're lost, ask a shop worker for help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x3)
- She was a complete stranger to me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x4)
- Never tell a stranger online where you live. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x5)
- Our new neighbours were strangers, but now they are friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x6)
- The noises got stranger and stranger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x7)
- He's no stranger to hard work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x8)
- "Howdy, Daddy Ben?" the stranger exclaimed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/#x9)

### note

Countable: strangers. Two words that look the same: a stranger (a person) and stranger (more strange). «Stranger danger» is a simple slogan, but the real rule is about tricky behaviour: anyone asking you to keep secrets or go somewhere without telling your parents.

### In the corpora

- [Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning what to say first helps, and it gets easier with practice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/15/)
- [Bots can invent phone numbers and addresses that belong to nobody, or to a stranger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/14/)
- [That's fine: treat everyone online you don't know in real life as a stranger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/7/)
- [It is often hard to tell a person from a bot online; treat everyone you don't know as a stranger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/16/)
- [Giving to known charities, with a grown-up, is safer than giving to a viral plea from a stranger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stranger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stranger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.