stranger

«stranger» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: foreigner living in the land — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

foreigner living in the land

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A person who is not from the land and lives among its people without being one of their family or nation. tree →

how it differs from today

Today a stranger is someone you do not know. The old sense is a foreigner living among a people. The first and third sentences use the old sense; the second uses today's sense.

examples

• Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. (Torah DEU.10.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Howdy, Daddy Ben?" the stranger exclaimed. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow. (Torah DEU.27.19, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

stranger

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 380 (Torah 58, tales 322, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 3; ratio 6.1 (Torah alone 19.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price.
• One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.'
• And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
• And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.
• And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stranger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.