Strand Definition

strănd

stranded, stranding, strands

noun

strands

Land at the edge of a body of water; shore, esp. ocean shore.

Webster's New World

Any one of the threads, fibers, wires, etc. that are twisted together to form a length of string, rope, or cable.

Webster's New World

Any of the individual bundles of thread or fiber so twisted together.

Webster's New World

A ropelike length of anything.

A strand of pearls, a strand of hair.

Webster's New World

A wisp or lock of hair.

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verb

stranded, stranding, strands

To drive or run (a boat, for example) ashore or aground.

American Heritage

To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water.

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To form (rope, etc.) by twisting together strands.

Webster's New World

To leave in, or be put into, a difficult, helpless position.

Stranded penniless in a strange city.

Webster's New World

To break a strand or strands of (a rope, etc.)

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pronoun

A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.

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Other Word Forms of Strand

Singular:

strand

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Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand"). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord"), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand"), from Old High German streno, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand"), from Proto-Indo-European *strÄ“y-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row"); related to Dutch streen (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string"), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair").

From Wiktionary
From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore"), from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field"), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to broaden, spread out"). Cognate with West Frisian straun, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand.

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the north strand (shore) of the river Thames

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Middle English from Old English

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English strond

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition