Word: strange Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āneus Latin extrāneusder. Old French estrange Anglo-Norman estraungebor. Middle English straunge English strange 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. Pronunciation: /stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/, [ʃtɹeɪnd͡ʒ] 1. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation. Example: He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter. Example: I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange? 2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. Example: I moved to a strange town when I was ten. Example: […] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you. 3. Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. Labels: slang Example: When AIDS and Herpes hit the street Talib stopped fucking with strange pussy and stray pussy. Bitches had a ways to go to match Malikah in bed anyway. With her there was that extra element of real love that heightened sex […] Example: Arnett might have come to Boston to eat baked beans, get some strange ass, or stick up the First New England Trust, the motive mattered little to him—whatever the boss wanted to do was jake-okay by him. Besides, being on overtime for ... 4. Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. Labels: particle Example: A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark. 5. Of an attractor: having a fractal structure. 6. Belonging to another country; foreign. Labels: obsolete Example: 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 […] Example: […] one of the strange queen’s lords. 7. Reserved; distant in deportment. Labels: obsolete Example: Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so? Example: She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee! 8. Backward; slow. Labels: obsolete Example: That to his name your barrenneſſe adds rule; / VVho louing the effect, vvould not be ſtrange / In fauoring the cause; looke on the profit, / And gaine vvill quickly point the miſchiefe out. 9. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. Labels: obsolete Example: I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange. 10. Not belonging to one.