Stranger, The

noun

1. French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.

Example Sentences

“Welcome, stranger,” the Emcee bids in three languages to his crowd, signaling how any nightlife scene is built on welcoming they who are a stranger and that which is stranger than the norm into its ample bosom.

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Her friendship blind date was part of Dinner with a Stranger, the society Juliette and her flatmates started "on a whim" for fellow Glasgow University students who want to meet new people.

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Nevertheless, even the half-aware viewer will have questions about “The Perfect Stranger,” the novel within the novel, whose events play out on the screen as settled history, and which other characters accept as such, but which is full of things Nancy could not have possibly known.

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The power of absence and refusal is perhaps more edifying in literature — see “The Stranger,” “The Quiet Man,” the brick-wall calm of I-would-prefer-not-to Bartleby — than in real life.

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My running friend Alice told me that she was donating her kidney to a stranger the following year.

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