seld

Meanings

Plural: selds

Noun

• A seat, throne.
• A shop (in Medieval Latin records selda or silda (cf. Latin sella (“seat, chair”)); also in Anglo-Norman form seude). Also, a stand for spectators.

Adj

• Rare, uncommon.
• Unusual, unwonted.

Adv

• Seldom.

Synonyms

aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, at times, bizarre, curious, dearthy, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, ever and anon, every now and then, every once in a while, every so often, exceptional, extraordinary, few and far between, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, from time to time, funny, geason, heteroclite, hinky, in short supply, incongruitous, incongruous, infrequent, infrequently, intermittently, irregular, irregularly, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, now and again, now and then, occasionally, odd, on occasion, once in a while, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, raresome, rum, rummy, scant, scantling, scarce, scarcely, selcouth, seld, seldom, selly, singular, sometimes, sporadically, strange, superrare, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, uncommonly, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unfrequent, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, while, whilom, yampy

Related Words

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