local vs stranger

local

noun
  • A person who lives near a given place. 

  • A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter. 

  • One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. 

  • An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors. 

  • A locally scoped identifier. 

  • An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. 

  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. 

adv
  • In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. 

adj
  • Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global 

  • Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. 

  • Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. 

  • From or in a nearby location. 

  • Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. 

  • Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. 

  • Descended from an indigenous population. 

stranger

noun
  • One who has not been seen for a long time. 

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

  • A newcomer. 

  • An outsider or foreigner. 

  • One not admitted to communion or fellowship. 

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

How often have the words local and stranger occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )