Definitions
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- adj. Strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant.
- adj. Not akin; unrelated.
- adj. Out of the ordinary; unusual; unwonted.
- adj. Strange; weird; outlandish; singular; odd; queer.
- adj. Wild; untamed.
- n. stranger; guest
- n. an enmity
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Strange; foreign.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Strange; foreign.
- Not akin; unrelated.
- Strange; singular; queer.
- Wild; undomesticated.
- n. A stranger; a foreigner or an alien.
Etymologies
From Middle English fremede ("strange, foreign"), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe ("foreign, strange"), from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”), from Proto-Indo-European *perəm-, *prom- (“forth, forward”), from *por- (“forward, through”). Cognate with Scots fremd ("fremd"), West Frisian frjemd ("strange, fremd"), Dutch vreemd ("strange, exotic"), German fremd ("strange, foreign"), Swedish främmande ("foreign, outlandish, strange"). More at from. (Wiktionary)
TylerJamesYoung commented on the word fremd
This word was played against me in Scrabble on the first turn! Hitting the double-letter bonus with the 'F' and getting the double-word at the board's center, my opponent scored 30 points. I was familiar with the word in German from having heard it in Cabaret alongside French and English approximations (etranger and stranger) in the opening song, but I am dismayed to find that it is Scrabble-legitimate.
May 7, 2012