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strife

English

Etymology

From Middle English strif, stryf, striffe, from Old French estrif, noun derived from estriver, from Frankish *str?ban; compare Dutch strijven. More at strive.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /st?a?f/
  • Rhymes: -a?f

Noun

strife (countable and uncountable, plural strifes)

  1. Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work.
  2. Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means.
    • 1595: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
      From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
      A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
      Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
      Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
  3. Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.
    Synonyms: altercation, contention, discord, wrangle
    • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:
      A few observations about the interpretation of vows or pledges may not be out of place here. Interpretation of pledges has been a fruitful source of strife all the world over. No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purposes.
  4. (colloquial) A trouble of any kind.
  5. (obsolete) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene[1]:
      He ?pide lamenting her unlucky ?trife,

Derived terms

  • strifeful
  • strifeless
  • strife-ridden
  • trouble and strife

Related terms

  • strive

Translations

References

  • strife in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • Fister, firest, firste, fister, freits, refits, resift, rifest, sifter

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stratagem

English

Etymology

From Middle English *stratageme, from Old French stratageme, from Latin strategema, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (strat?g?ma, the act of a general, a piece of generalship), from ????????? (strat?gé?, to be a general, command an army), from ????????? (strat?gós, a general, the leader or commander of an army). See strategy.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?st?æt.?.d??m/

Noun

stratagem (plural stratagems)

  1. A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
    • 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]:
      While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.

Related terms

  • strategic
  • strategist
  • strategy

Translations

Further reading

  • stratagem at OneLook Dictionary Search

Old French

Etymology

From Latin strategema, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (strat?g?ma).

Noun

stratagem m (oblique plural stratagens, nominative singular stratagens, nominative plural stratagem)

  1. strategy; stratagem

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