strand

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɹænd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stɹænd/, [stɹɛənd]

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• Rhymes: -ænd

• From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), strond, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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 *ster- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), German Strand, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Icelandic strönd.
• (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.

strand (plural strands)

1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

   Grand Strand

   • 1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out as Captain of a Ship. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 159:

     They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.

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

• strond (obsolete)

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
3. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

   Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

• (run aground): beach
• (leave someone in a difficult situation): abandon, desert

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Perhaps the same as Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) ("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-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *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”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).

strand (plural strands)

1. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
2. A string.
3. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

   strand of spaghetti

   strand of hair

4. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
5. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
   • 2020, Nichola Dobson, Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons, page 45:

     By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot.

6. (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

   strand of truth

   • 2004, David Wray, Literacy: Major Themes in Education, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 78:

     She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read.

7. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.

• See also Thesaurus:string

Note: many languages have particular words for “a strand of <substance>” that are different for each substance. The translations below refer to strands in general. You might find a more appropriate translation under the word for the substance itself.

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

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

• Arndts, drants

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Middle Dutch strant.

• IPA^(key): /strant/

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strand (plural strande, diminutive strandjie)

1. beach

From Old Norse strǫnd.

• IPA^(key): /stran/, [sd̥ʁɑnˀ]

strand c (singular definite stranden, plural indefinite strande)

1. beach
2. shore, seashore
3. seaside

strand

1. imperative of strande

• IPA^(key): /strɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: strand
• Rhymes: -ɑnt
• Homophone: Strand

From Middle Dutch strant. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

strand n (plural stranden, diminutive strandje n)

1. beach, strand

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

strand

1. inflection of stranden:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

From German Strand.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtrɒnd]
• Rhymes: -ɒnd

strand (plural strandok)

1. beach (a sandy shore of a body of water used for summertime leisure, swimming, suntanning)
2. pool, swimming pool (an urban open-air facility with lawns, trees and several artificially constructed pools, used for summertime leisure)

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• strandol
• strandos

(Compound words):

• strandcipő
• strandpapucs
• strandtáska

• strand in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From stranda (“to run aground”).

• IPA^(key): /strant/
• Rhymes: -ant

strand n (genitive singular strands, nominative plural strönd)

1. running aground, stranding

• strande
• stround, stronde, strond

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-Germanic *strandō.

• IPA^(key): /strand/, /strɔːnd/

strand (plural strandes)

1. (chiefly Northern) beach, shoreline

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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• Yola: sthroane, sthroan, sthrone, stronde

• “strō̆nd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse strǫnd.

strand f or m (definite singular stranda or stranden, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

1. a beach or shore

• nakenstrand
• sandstrand
• strande
• strandlinje

strand

1. imperative of strande

• “strand” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse strǫnd. Akin to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /strɑnd/, /strɑnː/

strand f (definite singular stranda, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

1. a beach or shore

• nakenstrand
• sandstrand
• strande
• strandlinje

• “strand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *strandō.

• IPA^(key): /strɑnd/

strand n

1. beach
2. shore

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• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• → Old French: estrande, estran

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Norse strǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *strandō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt-.

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strand c

1. beach (not necessarily sandy)
2. shore

• strand in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• strand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• strand in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)