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strait
English
Alternative forms
- streight (obsolete)
- streit (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of string? (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
- Homophone: straight
Adjective
strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)
- (archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, “Aholibah” in Poems and Ballads, London: John Camden Hotten, p. 311,[1]
- Sweet oil was poured out on thy head
- And ran down like cool rain between
- The strait close locks it melted in.
- 1894, Ernest Dowson, “To One in Bedlam” in The Second Book of The Rhymers’ Club, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 35,[3]
- Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line
- His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares,
- Pedant and pitiful.
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, “Aholibah” in Poems and Ballads, London: John Camden Hotten, p. 311,[1]
- (archaic) Righteous, strict.
- (obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.
- (obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
- (obsolete) Difficult; distressful.
- 18th c., Thomas Secker, Sermons on Several Subjects, 2nd edition, 1771, Volume III, Sermon XI, p. 253,[4]
- But to make your strait Circumstances yet straiter, for the Sake of idle Gratifications, and distress yourselves in Necessaries, only to indulge in Trifles and Vanities, delicate Food, shewish Dress, ensnaring Diversions, is every Way wrong.
- 18th c., Thomas Secker, Sermons on Several Subjects, 2nd edition, 1771, Volume III, Sermon XI, p. 253,[4]
- (obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.
Translations
Usage notes
The adjective is often confused with straight.
Derived terms
- straitjacket
- strait-laced
Noun
strait (plural straits)
- (geography) A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
- A narrow pass, passage or street.
- A neck of land; an isthmus.
- (often in the plural) A difficult position.
- 1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420,[5]
- […] let no man, who owns the Belief of a Providence, grow desperate or forlorn, under any Calamity or Strait whatsoever […]
- 1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420,[5]
Derived terms
- dire straits
- Menai Strait
Translations
Verb
strait (third-person singular simple present straits, present participle straiting, simple past and past participle straited)
- (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: 1577, Volume 1, The Historie of Englande, p. 3,[6]
- After Bardus, the Celtes […] were in short tyme, and with small labour broughte vnder the subiection of the Giaunt Albion, the sonne of Neptune, who altering the state of things here in this yland, straited the name of Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia […]
- 1658, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, London: Humphrey Moseley et al., p. 885,[7]
- The King, Duke of York, Prince Rupert and Maurice are still at Oxford closely surrounded by the Parliaments Forces, and the other not well resolving what course to take, all their Horse being about Faringdon, in expectation of the Lord Ashley with his Foot to joyn in a Body, if they be not prevented by Colonel Fleetwood and Rainsborough, straiting and allarming Oxford very often […]
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: 1577, Volume 1, The Historie of Englande, p. 3,[6]
- (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.
Adverb
strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)
- (obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.
Further reading
- strait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Rattis, artist, atrist, ittars, star it, strati, traits
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penury
English
Etymology
From Latin p?n?ria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”, adverb), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?nj??i/, /?p?nj??i/
Noun
penury (usually uncountable, plural penuries)
- Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
- A lack of something; a dearth.
- Synonyms: barrenness, insufficiency
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XI:
- No! penury, inertness and grimace, / In some strange sort, were the land's portion. […]
Derived terms
- penurious
Translations
Further reading
- “penury”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “penury”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- pruney
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