strange
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English strange, from Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus, "that which is on the outside". Displaced native Middle English fremd, frempt (“strange”) (from Old English fremede, fremde).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
strange (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)
- Not normal; Strikingly odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- Milton
- Sated at length, erelong I might perceive / Strange alteration in me.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
- Shakespeare
- Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 48–49:
- She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
- (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 93:
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
- 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 93:
- (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
- Shakespeare
- one of the strange queen's lords
- Ascham
- I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
- Shakespeare
- She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nathaniel Hawthorne to this entry?)
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) Backward; slow.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Who, loving the effect, would not be strange / In favouring the cause.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
- Shakespeare
- In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.
- Shakespeare
Synonyms[edit]
- (not normal): bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, peculiar, queer, singular, unwonted, weird
- (not part of one's experience): new, unfamiliar, unknown
- See also Wikisaurus:strange
Antonyms[edit]
- (not normal): everyday, normal, regular (especially US), standard, usual, unsurprising
- (not part of one's experience): familiar, known
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from strange
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Translations[edit]
not normal
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not yet part of one’s experience
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in quantum mechanics
belonging to another country, foreign
Verb[edit]
strange (third-person singular simple present stranges, present participle stranging, simple past and past participle stranged)
- (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Glanvill to this entry?)
Statistics[edit]
Most common English words before 1923: reached · appeared · spoke · #462: strange · force · character · taking
Anagrams[edit]
Noun[edit]
strange (uncountable)
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Adverb[edit]
strange
Old English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
strange
- Inflected form of strang
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