strand

Meaning

Noun

1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
2. (archaic, dialectal, poetic) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (British, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal) A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street.

Verb

1. (transitive) To run aground; to beach.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
3. (transitive) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
4. (transitive) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.

Verb

1. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
2. (transitive) To form by uniting strands.

Synonyms

shore

beach

🏖️

coast

string

🪢

run aground

filament

ground

thread

🧵

seaside

twist

seashore

maroon

ply

cable

bank

🏦

cord

rope

🪢

fiber

lock

🔒

box

📦

braid

run ashore

wire

width

desert

🏜️

abandon

seacoast

sea board

tress

seaboard

sea coast

twine

page

fibril

chain

littoral

aground

plait

nest

dismiss

dishonour

discard

disavow

bundle

desolate

lace

dangle

knit

jilt

crochet

Translations

brin

échouer

Faden

🧶

hebra

🧵

Strähne

stranden

Litze

arenarsi

Strang

🧵

Strand

🏖️

trefolo

encalhar

🏖️

stranden

rivage

🏦

filo

🧵

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹænd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: strand

Inherited from Old English: strand

Cognate with Western Frisian: strân

Cognate with Dutch: strand

Cognate with German: Strand

Cognate with Danish: strand

Cognate with Swedish: strand

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: strand

Cognate with Icelandic: strönd

Cognate with Scots: stran

Cognate with Dutch: streen

Cognate with German: Strähne

Cognate with Old High German: stranga

Cognate with German: Strang

In summary

* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand, Icelandic strönd.
* (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.