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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Strange \Strange\, adv.
     Strangely. [Obs.]
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           Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Strange \Strange\, v. t.
     To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Strange \Strange\, v. i.
     1. To be estranged or alienated. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Strange \Strange\, a. [Compar. Stranger; superl. Strangest.]
     [OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, fr. L. extraneus that is
     without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See
     Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]
     1. Belonging to another country; foreign. ``To seek strange
        strands.'' --Chaucer.
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              One of the strange queen's lords.     --Shak.
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              I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers
              tongues.                              --Ascham.
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     2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining
        to one's self; not domestic.
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              So she, impatient her own faults to see,
              Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.
                                                    --Sir J.
                                                    Davies.
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     3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
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              Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the
              character, I doubt not; and the signet is not
              strange to you.                       --Shak.
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     4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual;
        irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. ``He is sick
        of a strange fever.'' --Shak.
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              Sated at length, erelong I might perceive
              Strange alteration in me.             --Milton.
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     5. Reserved; distant in deportment. --Shak.
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              She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon
              learn to love thee.                   --Hawthorne.
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     6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]
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              Who, loving the effect, would not be strange
              In favoring the cause.                --Beau. & Fl.
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     7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
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              In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak.
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     Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation.
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                 Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the
                 snow
                 High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.
                                                    --Waller.
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     Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel.
  
     Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. --Prov. v. 3.
  
     To make it strange.
        (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning
            it. --Shak.
        (b) To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
            
  
     To make strange, To make one's self strange.
        (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment.
        (b) To assume the character of a stranger. --Gen. xlii. 7.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing;
          marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer;
          eccentric.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Strange \Strange\, a. [Compar. Stranger; superl. Strangest.]
     [OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, fr. L. extraneus that is
     without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See
     Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]
     1. Belonging to another country; foreign. ``To seek strange
        strands.'' --Chaucer.
  
              One of the strange queen's lords.     --Shak.
  
              I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers
              tongues.                              --Ascham.
  
     2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining
        to one's self; not domestic.
  
              So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from
              herself, and in strange things delights. --Sir J.
                                                    Davies.
  
     3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
  
              Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the
              character, I doubt not; and the signet is not
              strange to you.                       --Shak.
  
     4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual;
        irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. ``He is sick
        of a strange fever.'' --Shak.
  
              Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange
              alteration in me.                     --Milton.
  
     5. Reserved; distant in deportment. --Shak.
  
              She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon
              learn to love thee.                   --Hawthorne.
  
     6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]
  
              Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In
              favoring the cause.                   --Beau. & Fl.
  
     7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
  
              In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak.
  
     Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation.
  
                 Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the
                 snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.
                                                    --Waller.
  
     Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel.
  
     Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. --Prov. v. 3.
  
     To make it strange.
        (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning
            it. --Shak.
        (b) To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
            
  
     To make strange, To make one's self strange.
        (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment.
        (b) To assume the character of a stranger. --Gen. xlii. 7.
  
     Syn: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing;
          marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer;
          eccentric.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Strange \Strange\, adv.
     Strangely. [Obs.]
  
           Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Strange \Strange\, v. t.
     To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Strange \Strange\, v. i.
     1. To be estranged or alienated. [Obs.]
  
     2. To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] --Glanvill.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  strange
       adj 1: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected;
              slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange
              exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange
              fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she
              has" [syn: unusual] [ant: familiar]
       2: not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many
          strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown
          into the house" [syn: unknown]
       3: not at ease or comfortable; "felt strange among so many
          important people"

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  strange
     Αγγλικά a.
     παράξενος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  strange
     Esperanto adv.
     strangely
     Middle English a.
     (alternative form of enm straunge)
     West Flemish n.
     beach

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Strange
     n.
     1 (surname: en).
     2 (place en community twp:suf/King p/Ontario c/Canada), named after
  (w: Frederick William Strange).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  strange
     a.
     1 Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
     2 unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
     n.
     1 (lb en slang uncountable) (1: sex) outside of one's current
  relationship.
     2 (lb en particle physics countable) A strange quark.
     vb.
     1 (lb en obsolete transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
     2 (lb en obsolete intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
     3 (lb en obsolete intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished at
  (something).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Strange
     n.
     1 (surname: en).
     2 (place en community twp:suf/King p/Ontario c/Canada), named after
  (w: Frederick William Strange).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  strange
     Esperanto adv.
     strangely
     Middle English a.
     (alternative form of enm straunge)
     West Flemish n.
     beach

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Strange
     n.
     1 (surname: en).
     2 (place en community twp:suf/King p/Ontario c/Canada), named after
  (w: Frederick William Strange).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  strange
     Esperanto adv.
     strangely
     Middle English a.
     (alternative form of enm straunge)
     West Flemish n.
     beach

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Strange
     n.
     1 (surname: en).
     2 (place en community twp:suf/King p/Ontario c/Canada), named after
  (w: Frederick William Strange).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  strange
     Englanti a.
     1 outo, omituinen, kummallinen
     2 tuntematon
     3 vieras

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  strange
     Engelska a.
     1 konstig
     2 främmnade
     Engelska adv.
     (tagg: text=amerikansk engelska) konstigt

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-afr ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  1. vreemd
  2. eienaardig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  غريب

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  strange //stɹeɪnd͡ʒ// 
  1. чужд, чуждестранен
  belonging to another country, foreign
  2. стра́нен
  not normal
  3. непознат, чужд
  not yet part of one’s experience

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  cizí

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  divný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  podivný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  zvláštní

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/ 
  rhyfedd 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  befremdend, befremdlich 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  eigentümlich 
     Synonyms: odd, curious
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  fremd, ungewohnt 
   see: stranger, strangest
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  seltsam, sonderbar, absonderlich, sonderlich, komisch, skurril 
        "strange to say"  - so seltsam es klingen mag
   see: stranger, strangest
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  seltsam, merkwürdig, sonderbar, wunderlich  [geh.]
     Synonyms: curious, odd
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  
  παράξενος, περίεργος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  strange //stɹeɪnd͡ʒ// 
  1. outo
  in quantum mechanics
  2. outo, kummallinen, ihmeellinen, vieras
  not normal
  3. outo, tuntematon
  not yet part of one’s experience

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  strange /streindʒ/
  1. étranger
  2. drôle, étrange, singulier

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/ 
  1. अनोखा
        "Everybody makes fun of Hari as he wears strange clothes."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  neobičan, stran, tuđ, čudan

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  1. szokatlan
  2. különös
  3. meglepô
  4. furcsa
  5. idegen
  6. ismeretlen
  7. idegenszerû

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  strange //stɹeɪnd͡ʒ// 
  aneh
  not normal

From English-Italian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-ita ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  strano

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  strange //stɹeɪnd͡ʒ// 
  変, 奇妙
  not normal

From English-Latin FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lat ]

  strange /streindʒ/
  advena, allophylus, hospitus

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  strange /streindʒ/
  1. svetimas, nepažįstamas, nežinomas
  2. keistas, neįprastas, nesuprantamas
     See also: unusual
  

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  strange /streindʒ/
  1. buitenlands, onwennig, vreemd
  2. eigenaardig, gek, raar, vreemdsoortig, wonderlijk

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  strange //stɹeɪnd͡ʒ// 
  1. sær
  in quantum mechanics
  2. rar, merkelig, selsom, sær
  not normal
  3. ukjent
  not yet part of one’s experience

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  strange /streɪnʤ/ 
   1.  dziwny
   2.  obcy

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  strange /streindʒ/ 
  1. estranho, esquisito
  2. estrangeiro

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  strange //stɹeɪnd͡ʒ// 
  1. besynnerlig, konstig, märklig, underlig, egendomlig, sällsam
  not normal
  2. obekant, främmande, okänd
  not yet part of one’s experience

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  strange /stɹˈeɪndʒ/
  1. görülmemiş, ilk defa görülen
  2. başka yerden gelmiş
  3. yeni, alışılmamış
  4. tuhaf, garip, acayip
  5. yabancı
  6. utangaç, çekingen
  7. acemi, alışık olmayan, tecrübesiz
  8. acayip bir şekilde. strange look ing. tuhaf görünüşlü. strange'ly  tuhaf tuhaf garip bir şekilde, şaşılacak derecede. strange'ness  tuhaflık, acayiplik
  9. yabancılık.

From Esperanto-English FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.0.1 :   [ freedict:epo-eng ]

  strange /strˈanɡe/
  oddly

From Esperanto-English FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.0.1 :   [ freedict:epo-eng ]

  strange /strˈanɡe/
  oddly

From Esperanto-English FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.0.1 :   [ freedict:epo-eng ]

  strange /strˈanɡe/
  oddly

From Norwegian Nynorsk-Norwegian Bokmål FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:nno-nob ]

  strange
  strange

From Norwegian Nynorsk-Norwegian Bokmål FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:nno-nob ]

  Strange
  Strange

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈstɹeɪndʒ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  222 Moby Thesaurus words for "strange":
     aberrant, able, abnormal, absurd, alien, amazing, anomalous, apart,
     astonishing, astounding, atypical, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
     beguiling, bereft of reason, bewildering, bizarre, brainsick,
     crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy,
     crotchety, curious, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
     deranged, detached, deviant, deviative, different, disconnected,
     discrete, disjunct, disoriented, disrelated, dissociated,
     distraught, divergent, dotty, eccentric, enigmatic, erratic,
     exceptional, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraordinary,
     extraterrestrial, extrinsic, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, fey,
     fishy, flaky, flighty, foreign, foreign-born, freaked out,
     freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, hallucinated, idiocratic,
     idiosyncratic, incalculable, incognizable, incommensurable,
     incomparable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible,
     independent, inexplicable, insane, insular, intrusive, irrational,
     irregular, irrelative, isolated, kinky, kooky, loco, lunatic, mad,
     maddened, maggoty, manic, marvelous, mazed, mental,
     mentally deficient, meshuggah, miraculous, moon-struck, mysterious,
     new, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right,
     novel, nutty, odd, oddball, of unsound mind, off, off the wall,
     offbeat, original, other, out, out-of-the-way, outland, outlandish,
     outre, outside, passing strange, peculiar, phenomenal, prodigious,
     psycho, puzzling, quaint, queer, quirky, rare, reasonless,
     remarkable, removed, romanesque, romantic, rum, rummy, screwball,
     screwy, sealed, segregate, sensational, senseless, separate,
     separated, sick, singular, spectacular, stark-mad,
     stark-staring mad, striking, stupendous, surprising, tetched,
     touched, twisted, ulterior, unaccountable, unaccustomed,
     unaffiliated, unallied, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained,
     unassociated, unbalanced, unbeknown, uncanny, uncharted,
     unclassified, uncommon, unconnected, unconventional, uncouth,
     undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulged, unearthly,
     unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomed,
     unheard, unheard-of, unhinged, unidentified, unimaginable,
     uninvestigated, unique, unknowable, unknown, unnatural,
     unperceived, unplumbed, unprecedented, unrelatable, unrelated,
     unrevealed, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unsuspected, untouched,
     unusual, virgin, wacky, wandering, weird, whimsical, witless,
     wonderful, wondrous, wondrous strange
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 奇怪的,陌生的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a.
  奇怪的,陌生的,生疏的,不熟悉的,不可思议的,外行的,不习惯的,外地的

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