strand
/ˈstɹænd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A street.
Example Sentences
- "Grand Strand"
- "A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure."
- "They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand."
- "Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair."
- "We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages."
- "In her dissertation, Goldberg (2005) offers a review of diagnostics used to identify verb-stranding VPE to that point, including tests which link the characteristics of English-style VPE (which strands an auxiliary verb) to verb-stranding VPE in languages like Hebrew and Irish."
Etymology
* 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, German Strand (“beach”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strand (“beach”), Faroese strond (“beach”), Icelandic strönd (“beach”). * (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɹænd/
- British English: /ˈstɹænd/