streit

See also: Streit

English

Adjective

streit (comparative more streit, superlative most streit)

(obsolete) close; narrow; strict

Related terms

strait

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “streit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Sitter, Strite, Tetris, sitter, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triest, triset, triste

Middle English

Alternative forms

strayte, strete, stryte, stratte, strate
streighte, streihte, straight

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“compress, tighten”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stræi̯t/, /stræi̯xt/

Adjective

streit

strait

Descendants

English: strait, streit; streight (obsolete)
Yola: streigkt, streyght

References

“streit, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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