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посторонний — meaning in English

postoronniy

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English meaning

  • alien noun A being from another planet.
  • extraneous adj Not relevant or necessary to the matter at hand; irrelevant.
  • extrinsic adj External; separable from the thing itself; inessential.
  • outsider noun A person who does not belong to a particular group or community.
  • stranger noun A person you do not know.

Senses

посторонний is used for these senses in English:

  • alien A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
  • extrinsic Not belonging to something; outside.
  • outsider One who is not part of a community or organization.
  • stranger A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.

alien — full definition

  1. noun A being from another planet.
  2. noun A foreign citizen living in a country where they do not hold citizenship.
  3. adj Very strange or unfamiliar.
  4. verb (formal, law) To transfer ownership of property to someone else.

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