strong

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strong/strɒŋ/

▶adjective (stronger, strongest)

• 1 physically powerful.

  ■ great in power, influence, or ability.

• 2 done with or exerting great force.

  ■ (of language or actions) forceful and extreme.

• 3 able to withstand force, pressure, or wear.

  ■ secure, stable, or firmly established.

  ■ (of a market) having steadily high or rising prices.

• 4 great in intensity or degree: strong competition for land.

  ■ (of something seen or heard) not soft or muted.

  ■ pungent and full-flavoured.

  ■ (of a solution or drink) containing a large proportion of a substance.

• 5 used after a number to indicate the size of a group: a hostile crowd several thousands strong.

• 6 Grammar 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).

– phrases
come on strong informal behave aggressively or assertively.
going strong informal continuing to be healthy, vigorous, or successful.
strong on

• 1 good at.

• 2 possessing large quantities of.

strong meat Brit. ideas or language likely to be found unacceptably forceful or extreme.
one's strong point something at which one excels.

– derivatives
strongish adjective,
strongly adverb.

– origin OE, of Gmc origin; rel. to string.