{
    "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’."
}