The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strange \Strange\, a. [Compar. Stranger; superl. Strangest.] [OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]
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Belonging to another country; foreign. ``To seek strange strands.''
--Chaucer.One of the strange queen's lords.
--Shak.I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
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Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.
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Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
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Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. ``He is sick of a strange fever.''
--Shak.Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me.
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Reserved; distant in deportment.
--Shak.She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
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Backward; slow. [Obs.]
Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause.
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Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak. Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation. Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below. --Waller. Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel. Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. --Prov. v. 3. To make it strange.
To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it.
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To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To make strange, To make one's self strange.
To profess ignorance or astonishment.
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To assume the character of a stranger.
--Gen. xlii. 7.Syn: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete Scripture English) A harlot.
Usage examples of "strange woman".
Thrown away in a sentimental, sympathetic moment to ransom a strange woman, with never a thought of who she might be, what she was, or why she was there.
Indeed, she was the loveliest strange woman she had seen in all her life.
Unless we took a long sweep around the Cook Mountains, there were only two trails across that I knew of, and one of them I'd just advised that strange woman to take.
He was thinking of the gypsy troupe, of the old Tsigane, whose face he had not been able to see, and of the strange woman who accompanied him, and then of the peculiar glance which she had cast at him.
Allying himself with some strange woman dealing in some sort of nefarious who-knows-what?
Wouldn't your shipmates wonder about a strange woman bedding down with you for the night?
Strange that one who, sooner than do honest work, will sell his honor for a bottle of wine, a visit to the theatre, and an hour with a strange woman, all obtained by passing a worthless cheque, could yet stake his life on the most desperate chances of the battle-field!
A strange woman, thinner than any human and more supple, from the dance in which she was frozen.