C1adjectiveurbannature
US/streɪ/
UK/streɪ/
used about a pet animal with no home, or a single thing that is away from its proper place
In context
A volunteer group in Hanoi feeds and vaccinates stray dogs every weekend.
The café owner adopted a stray cat that kept sleeping on her motorbike.
She brushed a stray hair from her face and kept talking.
Words that go with stray
adjective + noun
- stray dogA stray dog followed us all the way back to the hotel.
- stray catTourists love the stray cats that sleep in the temple courtyard.
- stray animalsThe city needs a humane plan for stray animals.
- stray hairThere was a stray hair in my soup, so I asked for a new bowl.
- stray bulletA shop window was shattered by a stray bullet during the robbery.