- a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- a position of difficulty, distress, or need: Ill and penniless, he was in sad straits indeed.
- a narrow passage or area.
- an isthmus.
- narrow: Strait is the gate.
- affording little space; confined in area.
- strict, as in requirements or principles.
- (often plural)
- a narrow channel of the sea linking two larger areas of sea
- (capital as part of a name)
- a position of acute difficulty (often in the phrase in dire or desperate straits)
- a narrow place or passage
- (of spaces, etc) affording little room
- (of circumstances, etc) limiting or difficult
- severe, strict, or scrupulous
