[strɒŋ], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- having the power to move heavy weights or perform other physically demanding tasks
(e.g: she cut through the water with her strong arms)

- able to withstand force, pressure, or wear
(e.g: cotton is strong, hard-wearing, and easy to handle)

- very intense
(e.g: a strong smell)

- used after a number to indicate the size of a group
(e.g: a hostile crowd several thousands strong)

- denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by a change of vowel within the stem rather than by addition of a suffix (e.g. swim, swam, swum)

- relating to or denoting the strongest of the known kinds of force between particles, which acts between nucleons and other hadrons when closer than about 10?¹³ cm (so binding protons in a nucleus despite the repulsion due to their charge), and which conserves strangeness, parity, and isospin


Phrases:
- come on strong
- going strong
- one's strong point
- strong meat
- strong on

Origin:
Old English strong, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German streng, also to string