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{
"term": "stranger",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a person that you do not know",
"sensetop": "stranger to somebody",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "There was a **complete stranger** sitting at my desk."
},
{
"text": "They got on well together although they were **total strangers**."
},
{
"text": "Why should a perfect *(= complete)* stranger ever help me out?"
},
{
"text": "We've told our daughter not to speak to strangers."
},
{
"text": "She remained a stranger to me.",
"contextForm": "stranger to somebody"
},
{
"text": "He was a complete stranger to me."
},
{
"text": "His years abroad had made him almost a stranger with his family."
},
{
"text": "She said that I would meet a mysterious stranger."
},
{
"text": "He was tired of being accosted by strangers in the street."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["complete", "perfect", "total"],
"preposition": ["stranger to"],
"phrases": [
"a stranger here",
"a stranger in these parts",
"a stranger to these parts"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person who is in a place that they have not been in before",
"sensetop": "stranger to…",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Sorry, I don't know where the bank is. I'm a stranger here myself."
},
{
"text": "He must have been a stranger to the town.",
"contextForm": "stranger to…"
},
{
"text": "You're a stranger here, aren't you?"
},
{
"text": "She was a stranger to the place."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["complete", "perfect", "total"],
"preposition": ["stranger to"],
"phrases": [
"a stranger here",
"a stranger in these parts",
"a stranger to these parts"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be familiar/not familiar with something because you have/have not experienced it many times before",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He is no stranger to controversy."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈstreɪndʒə(r)/",
"audio": "st/stranger/stranger__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈstreɪndʒər/",
"audio": "st/stranger/stranger__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: shortening of Old French estrangier, from Latin extraneus ‘external, strange’."
}