Usually means: Unusual, not typical or expected.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word strange:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. strange: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strange: Merriam-Webster
  3. strange: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strange: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. strange: Collins English Dictionary
  6. strange: Vocabulary.com
  7. Strange, strange: Wordnik
  8. strange: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Strange, strange: Wiktionary
  10. strange: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. strange: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. strange: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. strange: Dictionary.com
  14. strange: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. strange: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Strange (Celeste song), Strange (En Vogue song), Strange (Gabrielle Aplin song), Strange (TV series), Strange (Wet Wet Wet song), Strange (surname), Strange (video), Strange, The Strange: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Strange: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. strange: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. strange: Rhymezone
  20. strange: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. strange: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Strange: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. strange: FreeDictionary.org
  24. strange: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. strange: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. strange: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Strange (comics), Strange (disambiguation), strange: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Strange (comics), Strange (disambiguation), strange: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strange: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Strange: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strange, strange, strange: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See strangely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
adjective:  Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
adjective:  (slang, of sex, genitals, etc) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
adjective:  (particle physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
adjective:  (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
adjective:  (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
adjective:  (obsolete) Backward; slow.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
adjective:  (law) Not belonging to one.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
noun:  (particle physics, countable) A strange quark.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A community of King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.

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