strange

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, especially if slightly uncomfortable.
2. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
3. (slang) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
4. Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
5. Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
6. (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
7. (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
8. (obsolete) Backward; slow.
9. (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
10. Not belonging to one.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To alienate; to estrange.
2. (obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.
3. (obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).

Noun

1. (slang) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
2. A strange quark.

Concepts

étrange

bizarre

étranger

singulier

inconnu

drôle

curieux

extraordinaire

inconnue

inexplicable

singulière

particulier

bizzare

deuxiéme dans l’ordre

mystérieux

merveilleux

miraculeux

étrangesingulier

exceptionnel

petite fille

inaccoutumé

curieuse

tordu

tordue

particulière

remarquable

bouffe

excentrique

hurluberlu

incognito

clocher

énigmatique

marrant

des autres

d'autrui

d'un autre

d'une autre

inhabituel

inusuel

fantastique

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”). Displaced native Middle English selcouth and uncouth, from Old English seldcūþ and uncūþ.

Phrases

But a strange thing happened .

Mais une chose étrange s'est produite.