strong

Bedeutung

1. Capable of producing great physical force.
2. Capable of withstanding great physical force.
3. Possessing power, might, or strength.
4. Determined; unyielding.
5. Highly stimulating to the senses.
6. Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
7. Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
8. Having a high alcoholic content.
9. Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
10. That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
11. Not easily subdued or taken.
12. Having wealth or resources.
13. (slang) Impressive, good.
14. Having a specified number of people or units.
15. Severe; very bad or intense.
16. Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
17. Convincing.

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Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/stɹɒŋ/

Etymologie

From Middle English strong, strang, from Old English strang, from Proto-West Germanic *strang, from Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“tight, strict, straight, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“taut, stiff, tight”). Cognate with Scots strang (“strong”), Saterland Frisian strang, West Frisian string (“austere, strict, harsh, severe, stern, stark, tough”), Dutch streng (“strict, severe, tight”), German streng (“strict, severe, austere”), Swedish sträng, strang (“severe, strict, harsh”), Norwegian strang (“strong, harsh, bitter”), Norwegian streng (“strong, hard”), Icelandic strangur (“strict”), Latin stringō (“tighten”).