Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, rare
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adj
Not kin, unrelated; foreign.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, rare
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adj
Wild; untamed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, rare
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noun
An enmity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, obsolete
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noun
Humorous alteration of "friend".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, childish
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History
From Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe (“foreign, strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”). Cognate with Scots fremmit, frempt (“fremd”), West Frisian frjemd (“strange, fremd”), Dutch vreemd (“strange, foreign”), German fremd (“fremd, strange, foreign”), Swedish främmande (“foreign, outlandish, strange”). More at from.
