Pronunciation Adjective
strange (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)
- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- circa 1598 William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV, Scene 1,
- I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, lines 598-601,[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IX]
- Sated at length, ere long I might perceave
- Strange alteration in me, to degree
- Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech
- Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
- circa 1604 William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV, Scene 2,
- […] 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:
- (math) Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
- (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, London, Book 1,
- I take goyng thither [to Italy], and liuing there, for a yonge ientleman, that doth not goe vnder the kepe and garde of such a man, as both, by wisedome can, and authoritie dare rewle him, to be meruelous dangerous […] not bicause I do contemne, either the knowledge of strange and diuerse tonges, and namelie the Italian tonge […] or else bicause I do despise, the learning that is gotten […]
- circa 1594 William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 2,
- […] one of the strange queen’s lords.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalms 137:4,
- How shall we sing the smallcaps Lord’s song in a strange land?
- 1662, Samuel Pepys, Diary entry dated 27 November, 1662, in Henry B. Wheatley (editor), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, New York: Croscup & Sterling, 1893, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 377,
- I could not see the [Russian] Embassador in his coach; but his attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men […] But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, London, Book 1,
- (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
- circa 1596 William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 1,
- Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?
- You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Chapter 19, p. 253,
- She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!
- circa 1596 William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 1,
- (obsolete) Backward; slow.
- 1621, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (playwright), Thierry and Theodoret, London: Thomas Walkley, Act III, Scene 1,
- […] to his name your barrennesse adds rule;
- Who louing the effect, would not be strange
- In fauoring the cause; looke on the profit,
- And gaine will quickly point the mischiefe out.
- 1621, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (playwright), Thierry and Theodoret, London: Thomas Walkley, Act III, Scene 1,
- (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
- circa 1607 William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,
- I know thee well;
- But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange.
- circa 1607 William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,
- (legal) Not belonging to one.
- (not normal) See Thesaurus:strange
- (not part of one's experience): new, unfamiliar, unknown
- (not normal) everyday, normal, regular (especially US), standard, usual, unsurprising
- (not part of one's experience): familiar, known
- French: étrange
- German: seltsam, sonderbar, komisch, verwunderlich
- Italian: strano
- Portuguese: estranho
- Russian: стра́нный
- Spanish: extraño, raro
- French: inconnu
- German: fremd
- Portuguese: desconhecido
- Russian: чужо́й
- Spanish: desconocido
- French: étranger
- German: ausländisch, fremd
strange (stranges, present participle stranging; 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 (at something).
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, Chapter 19, p. 184,
- [these] were all the Assertions of Aristotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not strange at from one, of whom a Father saith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]:
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, Chapter 19, p. 184,
strange (uncountable)
- (slang, uncountable) vagina
- 2013 "Taming Strange" (episode of South Park TV series)
- Ike: Yeah, for my cool cool trick I'm gonna tame Foofa's strange.
- Plex: Tame mo-what?
- Ike: I can tame Foofa's strange, bro.
- 2013 "Taming Strange" (episode of South Park TV series)
Strange
Proper noun
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