Stray | Mean of stray in English Dictionary

/ˈstreɪ/

• Verb
• to go in a direction that is away from a group or from the place where you should be
1. Two cows strayed [=wandered] into the woods.
2. The airplane strayed off course.
3. She strayed from the group and got lost.
4. Her eyes strayed from her computer to the window. [=she stopped looking at her computer and began looking at/out the window]
5. She never strayed [=deviated] from the path her parents envisioned for her.
6. The menu at their house rarely strays (too) far from meat and potatoes.
7. The class discussion strayed [=deviated] from the original topic.
8. a straying husband [=a husband who has sexual relations with a woman who is not his wife]
• lost or having no home
1. a stray cat/dog
• separated from another or others of the same kind
1. a stray sock

• not in or going in the proper or intended place
1. a few stray hairs
2. He was hit by a stray bullet. [=a bullet that was supposed to go somewhere else]
• Noun
• an animal (such as a cat or dog) that is lost or has no home
1. Both of her cats were strays that she found wandering in the neighborhood.
• a person or thing that is separated from a group
1. I matched up the socks in the laundry but I was left with one stray. [=one extra sock]