ξένος [4 verses] (noun sg masc nom ) "Stranger" is from xenos, which means "guest-friend," "stranger," "refugee," "stranger to a thing," "ignorant of a thing," and "unusual."  - "Stranger" is not the common word for "stranger" that has more of the sense of "foreign." It is a more specific noun which means "guest-friend," specifically meaning someone who should receive hospitality, so a "stranger," or "refugee." However, the word also means some that is a "stranger to a thing," "ignorant of a thing," and "unusual."