fremd
/ (frɛmd, freɪmd) /
adjective
archaic alien or strange
Nearby words
- frejka pillow splint,
- freleng,
- frelinghuysen,
- frelinghuysen, frederick theodore,
- fremantle,
- fremitus,
- fremont,
- frenal,
- frenate,
- french
Word Origin for fremd
Old English fremde; related to Old High German fremidi
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Examples from the Web for fremd
"Twenty-three years," he bellowed at the top of his voice, for he saw that I was fremd, and wished to make himself clear.
Home Life in Germany|Mrs. Alfred SidgwickYe might hae heard him a mile down the wind—He routed like a cow in a fremd loaning.
Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated|Sir Walter ScottVerstellung ist der offnen Seele fremd—Dissimulation 15 is alien to the open soul.
Have you a certainty that Normans wife was his sister, that you are thus mourning for a fremd man?
Merkland|Mrs. Oliphant