adj
Meaning 1
Abandoned or marooned.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
stranded
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
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Run aground on a shore or reef.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: nautical, transport
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Not having any expressed complement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 6
Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 7
Having the specified number or kind of strands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-compounds, not-comparable
Examples
- single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
simple past and past participle of strand
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
cut off or left behind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an isolated pawn
- several stranded fish in a tide pool
- travelers marooned by the blizzard
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: isolated, marooned
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English strand Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English stranded From strand + -ed.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: hylätty — of a person
- French: abandonné — of a person
- Georgian: გარიყული (gariq̇uli) — of a person
- Italian: abbandonato — of a person
- Spanish: abandonado — of a person
- Swedish: strandsatt — of a person
- Bulgarian: заседнал (zasednal) — of a vessel
- Dutch: gestrand — of a vessel
- Finnish: karilla — of a vessel
- French: échoué — of a vessel
- Hungarian: megfeneklett — of a vessel
- Italian: incagliato — of a vessel
- Old English: āseten — of a vessel
- Russian: сидящий на мели (sidjaščij na meli) — of a vessel
- Russian: выброшенный на берег (vybrošennyj na bereg) — of a vessel
- Slovak: uviaznutý — of a vessel
- Spanish: varado — of a vessel
- Swedish: strandad — of a vessel
- Bulgarian: усукан (usukan) — of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires
- Czech: stočený — of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires
- Dutch: litzedraad — of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires
- Finnish: punottu — of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires
- Spanish: trenzado — of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires
- Swedish: tvinnad — of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires
- Finnish: upotettu — expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover
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