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FromMiddle Englishstrengthe, fromOld Englishstrengþu(“strength”), fromProto-West Germanic*strangiþu(“strongness; strength”), equivalent tostrong +‎-th. Cognate withDutchstrengte(“strength”),German Low GermanStrengde,Strengte(“harshness;rigidity;strictness;severity”).

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Noun

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strength (countable anduncountable,pluralstrengths)

  1. Thequality ordegree ofbeingstrong.
    Antonym:weakness
    It requires greatstrength to lift heavy objects.
  2. Theintensity of aforce orpower;potency.
    He had thestrength of ten men.
    • 1699,William Temple,Heads designed for an essay on conversations‎[1]:
      Study givesstrength to themind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  3. Thestrongest part ofsomething; that on whichconfidence orreliance isbased.
  4. Apositiveattribute.
    Antonym:weakness
    to play to one'sstrengths
    We all have our ownstrengths and weaknesses.
    • 2013, Deborah Hay,My Body, The Buddhist,→ISBN, page78:
      The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent thestrengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.
  5. (obsolete) Anarmedforce, abody oftroops.
  6. (obsolete) A strongplace; astronghold.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book VII”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC, lines140-143:
      All like himself rebellious, by whose aid
      This inaccessible highstrength, the seat
      Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,
      He trusted to have seis’d[…]
  7. (graph theory) Theminimumratio of the number ofedges removed from a givengraph tocomponents created, over all possible removals.

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Translations

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quality of being strong
intensity of a force or power
strongest part of something
positive attribute

Verb

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strength (third-person singular simple presentstrengths,present participlestrengthing,simple past and past participlestrengthed)

  1. (obsolete) Tostrengthen(all senses).[12th–17th c.]
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:strengthen
    • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.],The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany:Peter Schöffer],→OCLC,Colossians j:[11],folio cclviiii, verso:
      ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes
    • 1529,John Frith,A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] ‎[3]:
      Then ſhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched monſtre / muſt beſtrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.
    • 1550, Edward Halle, “King Henry the viij.”, inThe Vnion of the Two Noble and Illuſtre Famelies of Lancaſtre and Yoꝛke‎[4], page1271:
      In witnes wherof we haue cauſed this pꝛeſent wꝛiting to beſtrengthed with the ſeal of our facultie[…]
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