Definitions for stray

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stray stray

Spelling: [strey]

IPA: /streɪ/

Stray is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in stray (arsty).

Definitions for stray

noun

1. a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner.
2. any homeless or friendless person or animal.
3. a person or animal that strays:
4. strays, Radio. static.

adjective

1. straying or having strayed, as a domestic animal.
2. found or occurring apart from others or as an isolated or casual instance; incidental or occasional.
3. Radio. undesired:

verb (used without object)

1. to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble:
2. to wander; roam:
3. to go astray; deviate, as from a moral, religious, or philosophical course:
4. to digress or become distracted.

Origin of stray

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English strayen, aphetic variant of astraien, estraien Middle French estraier Vulgar Latin *extrāvagāre to wander out of bounds (see extrava

Examples for stray

While some stray from the fold, most stay with the same pack their entire lives.

I am such a waif and stray everywhere, that I am liable to be drifted where any current may set.'

He did not propose to have his plans spoiled by these stray guests.

Three stray dogs saunter out of our way as we turn into a residential area lined with trailers and graffiti-sprayed stop signs.

Her thoughts could not stray far from the letter and—from other things!

It is present in all his works, in stray letters and detached passages.

The film tells the story of Ron “stray Dog” Hall, a burly, sixtysomething biker and Vietnam vet.

As much to me as if a stray, migratory mule had rambled into the wood and found me, and I him.

She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.

On the weekends the birds and stray cats keep the artists company as they set up their displays.