Friend vs. Stranger
Difference Between Friend and Stranger
Friend➦
A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
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Stranger➦
A stranger is a person who is unknown to another person or group. Because of this unknown status, a stranger may be perceived as a threat until their identity and character can be ascertained.
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Friend➦
A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
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Stranger➦
One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
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Friend➦
A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
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Stranger➦
A foreigner, newcomer, or outsider.
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Friend➦
One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement
friends of the clean air movement.
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Stranger➦
One who is unaccustomed to or unacquainted with something specified; a novice
a stranger to our language.
no stranger to hardship.
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Friend➦
Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker.
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Stranger➦
(Law) One that is neither privy nor party to a title, act, or contract.
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Friend➦
(Informal) To add (someone) as a friend on a social networking website.
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Stranger➦
(Archaic) A visitor or guest.
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Friend➦
(Archaic) To befriend.
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Stranger➦
A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
That gentleman is a stranger to me.
Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
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Friend➦
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.
Trust is important between friends.
I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day.
We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.
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Stranger➦
An outsider or foreigner.
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Friend➦
An associate who provides assistance.
The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend.
The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
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Stranger➦
One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
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Friend➦
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
a friend of a friend;
I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know
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Stranger➦
A newcomer.
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Friend➦
A person who backs or supports something.
I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
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Stranger➦
(humorous) One who has not been seen for a long time.
Hello, stranger!
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Friend➦
(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
Fruit is your friend.
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Stranger➦
(obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
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Friend➦
Used as a form of address when warning someone.
You’d better watch it, friend.
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Stranger➦
(legal) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.
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Friend➦
(object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
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Stranger➦
(obsolete) A superstitious premonition of the coming of a visitor by a bit of stalk in a cup of tea, the guttering of a candle, etc.
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Friend➦
(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
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Stranger➦
To estrange; to alienate.
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Friend➦
(euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
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Stranger➦
One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
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Friend➦
A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
Friends agree best at a distance.
Make friends of framet folk.
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Stranger➦
One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
I am a most poor woman and a stranger,Born out of your dominions.
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Friend➦
To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
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Stranger➦
One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
To honor and receiveOur heavenly stranger.
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Friend➦
(transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
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Stranger➦
One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
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Friend➦
One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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Stranger➦
One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.
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Friend➦
One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.
Friend, how camest thou in hither?
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Stranger➦
One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear,And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
My child is yet a stranger in the world.
I was no stranger to the original.
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Friend➦
One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.
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Stranger➦
To estrange; to alienate.
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Friend➦
One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.
America was first visited by Friends in 1656.
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Stranger➦
anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
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Friend➦
A paramour of either sex.
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Friend➦
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
Fortune friends the bold.
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Friend➦
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust;
he was my best friend at the university
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Friend➦
an associate who provides assistance;
he's a good ally in fight
they were friends of the workers
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Friend➦
a person with whom you are acquainted;
I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances
we are friends of the family
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Friend➦
a person who backs a politician or a team etc.;
all their supporters came out for the game
they are friends of the library
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Friend➦
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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