strange
pronunciation
How to pronounce strange in British English:
UK [streɪndʒ]
How to pronounce strange in American English:
US [streɪndʒ]
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- Adjective:
- being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
- not known before
- not at ease or comfortable
Word Origin
- strange
- strange: [13] The etymological notion underlying strange is of being ‘beyond the usual bounds or boundaries’. This evolved into ‘foreign’ (which survives in the closely related French étrange) and ‘odd’. The word came via Old French estrange from Latin extrāneus ‘foreign, strange’ (source of English extraneous [17]), an adjective based on extrā ‘outward, outside’. Stranger [14] goes back to *extrāneārius, a Vulgar Latin derivative of extrāneus; and another derivative, extrāneāre ‘alienate’, produced English estrange [15].=> estrange, extraneous
- strange (adj.)
- late 13c., "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown, unfamiliar," from Old French estrange "foreign, alien, unusual, unfamiliar, curious; distant; inhospitable; estranged, separated" (Modern French étrange), from Latin extraneus "foreign, external, from without" (source also of Italian strano "strange, foreign," Spanish estraño), from extra "outside of" (see extra). In early use also strounge, straunge. Sense of "queer, surprising" is attested from late 14c. In nuclear physics, from 1956.
Example
- 1. We don 't find it strange .
- 2. Were you so eager to expose yourself to strange men ?
- 3. That is a strange use of an opposition leader 's time .
- 4. His sudden death is a strange kind of victory .
- 5. But why are the others so strange ?