Dictionary Entry

strength

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /strehngkth/Used In Literature ↓

The ability to do physical or mental work, or to withstand hardship or stress.

In a Sentence

“The athlete trained hard to increase her physical strength for the competition.”

Origin

From Old English 'strengþu', related to the word 'strong'.

Common Phrases

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Synonyms

Antonyms

Poetry examples for “strength”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Must lose its heat.
To give strength to a lame man’s feet.

"I wish you strength to bring you pride,
And a love to keep you clean,

And then the clock collected in the tower
Its strength, and struck.

Ever darker hell on high
Reared its strength upon the sky,
And our footfall on the track

Like friendly colours found them both unite,
And each from each contract new strength and light.
How oft in pleasing tasks we wear the day,

Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
But this bold lord, with manly strength endued,
She with one finger and a thumb subdued:

οἱ ῥέοντες.
“Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free”
To — (“All good things have not kept aloof”)

οἱ ῥέοντες.
“Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free”
To — (“All good things have not kept aloof”)

οἱ ῥέοντες.
“Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free”
To — (“All good things have not kept aloof”)

οἱ ῥέοντες.
“Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free”
To — (“All good things have not kept aloof”)