English Dictionary

strait

IPA（発音記号）

/stɹeɪt/

形容詞

古語 廃用 別表記

(archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close. / (archaic) Righteous, strict. / (obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting. / (obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

日本語の意味

（古語）狭い、空間や範囲が限定された / （古語）厳格な、厳正な / （旧語）ぴったりした、身体に密着した / （旧語）親密な、近しい、身近な

The strait alley between the old houses barely let a cart pass.

古い家々の間の狭い路地は、荷車がかろうじて通れる程度だった。

意味（1）

(archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.

Sweet oil was poured out on thy head And ran down like cool rain between The strait close locks it melted in.

意味（2）

(archaic) Righteous, strict.

to follow the strait and narrow

意味（3）

(obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.

Palamon. […] Stay a little, / Is not this peece too streight? / Arcite. No, no, tis well.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

After the noble Prince Leonatus had by his fathers death succeeded in the kingdome of Galatia, he (forgetting all former iniuries) had receiued that naughtie Plexirtus into a streight degree of fauour […]

意味（5）

(obsolete) Difficult; distressful.

But to make your strait Circumstances yet straiter, for the Sake of idle Gratifications, and distress yourselves in Necessaries, only to indulge in Trifles and Vanities, delicate Food, shewish Dress, ensnaring Diversions, is every Way wrong.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.

[…] I do not ask you much, / I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.

意味（7）

Obsolete spelling of straight.

A strait Line over a Vowel denotes the Omission of the Letter m or n following: quā--quam‖nō--non‖[…] […] The strait Line over m in the Middle of a Word denotes the Omission of the Letter n following: om̄es--omnes‖om̄ia--omnia

straiter （ comparative ）

straitest （ superlative ）