strong
English
/stɹɒŋ/, /stɹɔŋ/, /stɹɑŋ/
adj
Definitions
- Capable of producing great physical force.
- Capable of withstanding great physical force.
- (of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power.
- Determined; unyielding.
- Highly stimulating to the senses.
- Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
- Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
- (specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.
- (grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
- (chemistry) That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
- (military) Not easily subdued or taken.
- Having wealth or resources.
- (slang) Impressive, good.
- Having a specified number of people or units.
- (of a disease or symptom) Severe; very bad or intense.
- (mathematics) Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
- (of an argument) Convincing.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English strong (having physical strength, strong, built to withstand assaults, fortified, sturdy) inherited from Old English strong inherited from Proto-Germanic *strangaz (strong, strict, tight, straight) derived from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (rope, cord, strand, be tight, draw, tie, pulled tight, straight, constricted, tighten).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strengʰ-
Gloss
rope, cord, strand, be tight, draw, tie, pulled tight, straight, constricted, tighten
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antistrong English
- arm English
- back English
- bandstrength English
- box English
- electrostrong English
- fore-strength English
- go strong English
- hand English
- handed English
- head English
- headstrong English
- headstrongly English
- headstrongness English
- hearted English
- hold English
- linestrength English
- link English
- midstrength English
- nonstrong English
- overstrength English
- overstrong English
- point English
- semistrong English
- strength English
- strength training English
- strengthen English
- strengthful English
- strengthless English
- strengthy English
- strong verb English
- strong-arm English
- strong-handed English
- strong-handedly English
- strong-handedness English
- strongback English
- strongbox English
- stronger English
- strongful English
- strongfully English
- stronghand English
- stronghearted English
- strongheartedly English
- strongheartedness English
- stronghold English
- strongish English
- strongling English
- stronglink English
- strongly English
- strongman English
- strongness English
- strongpoint English
- strongwoman English
- superstrength English
- superstrong English
- ultrastrong English
- ultrastrongly English
- understrength English
- unstrength English
- unstrong English
- verb English
- windstrength English
- woman English
- astringo Latin
- circumstringo Latin
- distringo Latin
- instringo Latin
- restringo Latin
- strigmentum Latin
- stringō Latin
- Strenge German
- anstrengen German
- streng German
- strenggläubig German
- navelstreng Dutch, Flemish
- streng Dutch, Flemish
- στραγγός Ancient Greek
- *streng- Proto-Indo-European
- *strengʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *strenk- Proto-Indo-European
- *streyg- Proto-Indo-European
- *strangaz Proto-Germanic
- *strangijaz Proto-Germanic
- *strangistô Proto-Germanic
- *strangiz Proto-Germanic
- *strangizô Proto-Germanic
- strong Swedish
- sträng Swedish
- strang Old English
- strong Old English
- destresse Middle English
- heedstrong Middle English
- strengthe Middle English
- strong Middle English
- strong-herted Middle English
- strong-hōld, strong-hold Middle English
- strongere Middle English
- strongful Middle English
- strongliche Middle English
- strongnes Middle English
- strangr Old Norse
- navlestreng Danish
- streng Danish
- strangur Icelandic
- strenge Middle Dutch
- strangi Old High German
- strenge Middle High German
- shtrëngoj Albanian
- stringu Aromanian
- strong Tok Pisin
- strongpela Tok Pisin
- sthrængh Old Danish
- tranga Sranan Tongo
- arm
- box
- hold
- head
- verb
- back
- hand
- link
- point
- woman
- handed
- hearted
- unstrong
- strength
- stronger
- strongly
- nonstrong
- strongman
- strengthy
- strongbox
- strongful
- go strong
- strongish
- stronglink
- semistrong
- strongback
- strong-arm
- strengthen
- antistrong
- stronghold
- unstrength
- overstrong
- strongness
- headstrong
- stronghand
- strongling
- midstrength
- strongwoman
- strongpoint
- superstrong
- strongfully
- strengthful
- strong verb
- ultrastrong
- headstrongly
- overstrength
- bandstrength
- linestrength
- windstrength
- strengthless
- fore-strength
- ultrastrongly
- superstrength
- stronghearted
- understrength
- strong-handed
- electrostrong
- headstrongness
- strong-handedly
- strongheartedly
- strong-handedness
- strength training
- strongheartedness