adjective
- strange or unfamiliar; foreign or alien
Usage: archaic or dialectal; chiefly Scottish and Northern English
Examples
- The customs of that distant land seemed fremd to the travelers.
- He felt fremd in the new city, surrounded by unfamiliar faces.
- The fremd dialect was difficult for outsiders to understand.
- She regarded the stranger's fremd ways with curiosity.
- In old Scottish literature, fremd often describes something exotic or otherworldly.