Definition of Strange

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Strange

Belonging to another country; foreign.

Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.

Reserved; distant in deportment.

Backward; slow.

Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

Strangely.

To alienate; to estrange.

To be estranged or alienated.

To wonder; to be astonished.

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Strange Quotations

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.
Mike Ditka

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Plato

Strange Translations

strange in Afrikaans is vreemd, eienaardig
strange in Danish is fremmed
strange in Dutch is buitenlands, vreemd, onwennig
strange in Finnish is vieras
strange in German is fremd, seltsam, sonderbar, fremde, fremd, seltsam
strange in Italian is strano, caratteristico, straniero, estroso
strange in Latin is insolitus, alienus
strange in Norwegian is fremmed
strange in Portuguese is estranho

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