Stranger vs. Anonymous

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

Example: ‘That gentleman is a stranger to me.’; ‘Children are taught not to talk to strangers.’;

An outsider or foreigner.

One not admitted to communion or fellowship.

A newcomer.

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

Example: ‘Hello, stranger!’;

(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.

Example: ‘Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.’;

(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.

Example: ‘I am a most poor woman and a stranger,Born out of your dominions.’;

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

Example: ‘To honor and receiveOur heavenly stranger.’;

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.

Example: ‘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.’;

To estrange; to alienate.

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

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.

(not comparable) Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species.

(not comparable) Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible

Example: ‘an anonymous pamphlet; an anonymous subscription.’; ‘anonymous author’;

(not comparable) Of unknown name; whose name is withheld

Example: ‘an anonymous author; an anonymous benefactor.’; ‘The anonymous contributors of Wikipedia’; ‘No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.’;

Lacking individuality.

Example: ‘an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate''’;

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

having no known name or identity or known source;

Example: ‘anonymous authors’; ‘anonymous donors’; ‘an anonymous gift’;

not known or lacking marked individuality;

Example: ‘brown anonymous houses’; ‘anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service’;