stray

adjective/streɪ/

Frequency rank: #5,775 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

having no home or owner; wandering away from where one belongs.

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Example sentence

The children found this stray cat wandering alone near the park.

Synonyms & related words

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