Definition of strays Strays
/stɹejˈz/ - [streyz] - strays
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Wiktionary 
- strays (Noun)
Plural of stray.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: strays |
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| stray - an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) | ||
| domestic animal, domesticated animal any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment | ||
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| stray - wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" | ||
| err, drift | ||
| locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" | ||
| stray - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" | ||
| roll, wander, swan, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond | ||
| locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" | ||
| maunder wander aimlessly | ||
| gad, gallivant, jazz around wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | ||
| err, stray, drift to make a mistake or be incorrect | ||
| wander go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town" | ||
| stray - lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" | ||
| digress, divagate, wander | ||
| tell discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy" | ||
Adjectivestray, straier, straiest |
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| stray - (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home; "a stray calf"; "a stray dog" | ||
| lost not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" | ||
| stray - not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" | ||
| isolated | ||
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Wiktionary
- stray (Noun)
Any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. - stray (Noun)
One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically. - stray (Noun)
The act of wandering or going astray. - stray (Noun)
An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i. e. "the stray". - stray (Verb)
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. - stray (Verb)
To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray. - stray (Verb)
To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. - stray (Verb)
To cause to stray. - stray (Adjective)
Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep. - stray (Adjective)
In the wrong place; misplaced.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- stray (a.)
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. - stray (a.)
To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray. - stray (a.)
Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. - stray (v. t.)
To cause to stray. - stray (v. i.)
Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep. - stray (n.)
Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively. - stray (n.)
The act of wandering or going astray.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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stray
strā, v.i. to wander: to go from the enclosure, company, or proper limits: to err: to rove: to deviate from duty or rectitude.—v.t. (Shak.) to cause to stray.—n. a domestic animal that has strayed or is lost: a straggler, a waif, a truant: the act of wandering.—adj. Strayed, wandering, astray.—ns. Stray′er, one who strays, a wanderer; Stray′ling, a little waif or stray. [O. Fr. estraier, to wander—estree, a street—L. strata, a street.]
