Definition of "fremd" [fremd]

• Strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant. (adjective)
• Not akin; unrelated. (adjective)
• Out of the ordinary; unusual; unwonted. (adjective)
• Strange; weird; outlandish; singular; odd; queer. (adjective)
• Wild; untamed. (adjective)

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• "Kirsteen had known vaguely that her sister was supposed to be in Glasgow, which was something like an aggravation of her offence: for to live among what Miss Eelen called the fremd in a large town was the sort of unprincipled preference of evil to good which was to be expected from a girl who had married beneath her; but to find herself confronted with Anne was a contingency which had never occurred to her."
• "Ye might hae heard him a mile down the wind — He routed like a cow in a fremd loaning."
• "Ger. fremd, so that opposite terms, which we find regularly contrasted in Mid."