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strange

Pronunciation: /stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

The English word “strange” has 15 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
  2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
  3. Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
  4. Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
  5. Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
  6. Belonging to another country; foreign.
  7. Reserved; distant in deportment.
  8. Backward; slow.
  9. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
  10. Not belonging to one.

verb

  1. To alienate; to estrange.
  2. To be estranged or alienated.
  3. To wonder; to be astonished at (something).

noun

  1. Sex outside of one's current relationship.
  2. A strange quark.

Etymology

From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.

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