Stranger vs. Xenodochy — What's the Difference?

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.

Reception of strangers; hospitality.

One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

Reception of strangers; hospitality.

A foreigner, newcomer, or outsider.

One who is unaccustomed to or unacquainted with something specified; a novice

(Law) One that is neither privy nor party to a title, act, or contract.

(Archaic) A visitor or guest.

A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

An outsider or foreigner.

One not admitted to communion or fellowship.

A newcomer.

(humorous) One who has not been seen for a long time.

(obsolete) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

(legal) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.

(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.

To estrange; to alienate.

One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.

One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.

One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.

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.

One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.

To estrange; to alienate.

Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found