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stranger
adjectives
a complete/perfect/total stranger
(= used to emphasize that you do not know the person )
• Really, I don't know why I'm revealing all this to a complete stranger.
a virtual stranger
(= someone you hardly know )
• I hadn't seen him for so long that he seemed like a virtual stranger.
a passing stranger
(= one you pass in the street )
• Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you.
a mysterious stranger
• She never knew who the mysterious stranger was who had helped her that night.
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noun ADJ. complete, perfect, total | virtual | passing PREP. ~ to He was a complete stranger to me. She was a stranger to the place PHRASES almost a stranger His years abroad had made him almost a stranger with his family. | a stranger here You're a stranger here, aren't you? | a stranger in/to these parts A stranger to these parts would be confused by some of the local customs.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary