Definition of stray

"stray" in the noun sense

1. stray

an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)

"stray" in the verb sense

1. roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

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"

2. stray, err, drift

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"

3. digress, stray, divagate, wander

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"

"stray" in the adjective sense

1. isolated, stray

not close together in time

"isolated instances of rebellion"

"a few stray crumbs"

2. stray

of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home

"a stray calf"

"a stray dog"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for stray

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. [ Pope ]

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. [ Lowell ]

There is always some levity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise and also to stray. [ Joubert ]

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it! [ Hawthorne ]

A stray volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Her golden locks she roundly did uptie in braided trammels, that no looser hairs did out of order stray about her dainty ears. [ Spenser ]

Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]

stray in Scrabble®

The word stray is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters stray:

SATYR
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STRAY
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TRAYS
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ARTSY
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stray in Words With Friends™

The word stray is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters stray:

ARTSY
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TRAYS
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SATYR
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STRAY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In stray

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Words within the letters of stray

2 letter words in stray (6 words)

3 letter words in stray (11 words)

4 letter words in stray (9 words)

5 letter words in stray (Anagrams) (4 words)

Words containing the sequence stray

Words that start with stray (6 words)

Words with stray in them (1 word)

Words that end with stray (2 words)

Word Growth involving stray

Shorter words in stray

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Longer words containing stray

astray

strayed

strayer strayers

straying

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