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English

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Etymology

From estrange, from extraneus, a thing outside

Pronunciation

  • , IPA: /streɪndʒ/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-strange.ogg


Adjective

  1. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
  2. :: He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
  3. unfamiliar|Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
  4. :: I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
  5. Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
  6. * 2004: A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 93)


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  • Finnish: ,
  • French: {{t+|fr|inconnu|m}}, {{t+|fr|inconnue|f}}
  • Hungarian: ,
  • Finnish:
  • German:
  • Italian:
  • Polish:
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|странный|tr=stránnyj|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish:

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Esperanto

Adverb

strange

  1. strangely


Category:Esperanto adverbs

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strange \Strange\, a. [Compar. Stranger; superl. Strangest.]
[OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, fr. L. extraneus that is
without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See
Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]
1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange
strands." --Chaucer.
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One of the strange queen's lords. --Shak.
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I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers
tongues. --Ascham.
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2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining
to one's self; not domestic.
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So she, impatient her own faults to see,
Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.
--Sir J.
Davies.
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3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
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Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the
character, I doubt not; and the signet is not
strange to you. --Shak.
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4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual;
irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. "He is sick of
a strange fever." --Shak.
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Sated at length, erelong I might perceive
Strange alteration in me. --Milton.
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5. Reserved; distant in deportment. --Shak.
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She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon
learn to love thee. --Hawthorne.
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6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]
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Who, loving the effect, would not be strange
In favoring the cause. --Beau. & Fl.
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7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
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In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak.
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Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation.
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Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the
snow
High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.
--Waller.
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Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel.

Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. --Prov. v. 3.

To make it strange.
(a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning
it. --Shak.
(b) To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


To make strange, To make one's self strange.
(a) To profess ignorance or astonishment.
(b) To assume the character of a stranger. --Gen. xlii. 7.
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Syn: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing;
marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer;
eccentric.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strange \Strange\, adv.
Strangely. [Obs.]
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Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strange \Strange\, v. t.
To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strange \Strange\, v. i.
1. To be estranged or alienated. [Obs.]
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2. To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
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WordNet strange
adj 1: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected;
slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange
exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange
fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she
has" [syn: unusual] [ant: familiar]
2: not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many
strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown
into the house" [syn: unknown]
3: not at ease or comfortable; "felt strange among so many
important people"
Moby Dictionary
aberrant , able , abnormal , absurd , alien , amazing , anomalous , apart ,
astonishing , astounding , atypical , barbarian , barbaric , barbarous ,
beguiling , bereft of reason , bewildering , bizarre , brainsick ,
crackbrained , cracked , crank , crankish , cranky , crazed , crazy ,
crotchety , curious , daft , deluded , demented , deprived of reason ,
deranged , detached , deviant , deviative , different , disconnected ,
discrete , disjunct , disoriented , disrelated , dissociated ,
distraught , divergent , dotty , eccentric , enigmatic , erratic ,
exceptional , exotic , exterior , external , extraneous , extraordinary ,
extraterrestrial , extrinsic , fabulous , fantastic , fascinating , fey ,
fishy , flaky , flighty , foreign , foreign-born , freaked out ,
freakish , freaky , funny , grotesque , hallucinated , idiocratic ,
idiosyncratic , incalculable , incognizable , incommensurable ,
incomparable , incomprehensible , inconceivable , incredible ,
independent , inexplicable , insane , insular , intrusive , irrational ,
irregular , irrelative , isolated , kinky , kooky , loco , lunatic , mad ,
maddened , maggoty , manic , marvelous , mazed , mental ,
mentally deficient , meshuggah , miraculous , moon-struck , mysterious ,
new , non compos , non compos mentis , not all there , not right ,
novel , nutty , odd , oddball , of unsound mind , off , off the wall ,
offbeat , original , other , out , out-of-the-way , outland , outlandish ,
outre , outside , passing strange , peculiar , phenomenal , prodigious ,
psycho , puzzling , quaint , queer , quirky , rare , reasonless ,
remarkable , removed , romanesque , romantic , rum , rummy , screwball ,
screwy , sealed , segregate , sensational , senseless , separate ,
separated , sick , singular , spectacular , stark-mad ,
stark-staring mad , striking , stupendous , surprising , tetched ,
touched , twisted , ulterior , unaccountable , unaccustomed ,
unaffiliated , unallied , unapparent , unapprehended , unascertained ,
unassociated , unbalanced , unbeknown , uncanny , uncharted ,
unclassified , uncommon , unconnected , unconventional , uncouth ,
undisclosed , undiscoverable , undiscovered , undivulged , unearthly ,
unexplained , unexplored , unexposed , unfamiliar , unfathomed ,
unheard , unheard-of , unhinged , unidentified , unimaginable ,
uninvestigated , unique , unknowable , unknown , unnatural ,
unperceived , unplumbed , unprecedented , unrelatable , unrelated ,
unrevealed , unsane , unsettled , unsound , unsuspected , untouched ,
unusual , virgin , wacky , wandering , weird , whimsical , witless ,
wonderful , wondrous , wondrous strange


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