strange

Betekenis

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.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Etymologie

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.

Zinnen

But a strange thing happened .

Maar er gebeurde iets vreemds.