strangers
STRAYN-jurz/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚz/UKSTRAYN-juhz/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒəz/
- 1Plural of stranger.
The waiting room was full of strangers avoiding eye contact.
She felt that her old friends had become strangers over the years.
Note
A regular plural, but its range is wider than unfamiliar faces. Strangers can be outsiders or foreigners, newcomers to a place, or people kept outside a communion or fellowship. An older, now obsolete meaning made strangers simply those outside the household: guests and visitors. Context decides which reading applies, so strangers to the faith and strangers in town are different kinds of outsider.
strangers is a form of stranger
stranger, noun: A person you do not know, who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance. Full entry
- Forms
- strangerstrangers plural
- Spelling
- stranger → strangers: add -s
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