strange
English
/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
adj
Definitions
- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- (math) Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
- (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
- (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
- (obsolete) Backward; slow.
- (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
- (legal) Not belonging to one.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English straunge derived from Old French estrange derived from Latin extraneus (foreigner, stranger, that which is on the outside).
Origin
Latin
extraneus
Gloss
foreigner, stranger, that which is on the outside
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bestrange English
- bestranged English
- bestrangement English
- bestranging English
- fremd English
- multistrange English
- multistrangeness English
- nonstrange English
- sstrange English
- strange-ass English
- strangelet English
- strangeling English
- strangely English
- strangeness English
- unstrange English
- extraneus Latin
- extraneāre Latin
- extrā Latin
- extrāneus Latin
- étrange French
- étrangement French
- étranger French
- étrangeté French
- extranjerismo Spanish, Castilian
- extranjero Spanish, Castilian
- *framaþiz Proto-Germanic
- *framaþjaz Proto-Germanic
- afremdan Old English
- fremde Old English
- fremede Old English
- fremedlæcan Old English
- fremde Middle English
- fremmet Middle English
- straunge Middle English
- estrange Old French
- estranger Old French
- estrangier Old French
- êtrangi Norman
- êtrangiéthement Norman
- estrange Middle French
- estraño Old Portuguese
- estraunge xno
- etranje Haitian, Haitian Creole
- stranieru Corsican