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stand¹

  • /ˈstænd/ UK
  • [ˈstænd] UK
  • /ˈstand/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈstand] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈstand/ Northern England, Scotland
  • [ˈständ] Northern England, Scotland
  • /ˈstænd/ Australia
  • [ˈstæːnd] Australia
  • /ˈstɛnd/ New Zealand
  • [ˈstɛnd] New Zealand
  • /ˈstænd/ Canada, US
  • [ˈsteə̯nd] ~ [ˈstɛə̯nd] Canada, US
  • /ˈstænd/
  • [ˈste̞ːnd] ~ [ˈstɛːnd]

Rhymes with -ænd

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *standaną

Proto-West Germanic *standan

Old English standan

Middle English stonden

English stand

From Middle English stonden, standen (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Cognates

Cognate with Scots staund (“to stand”), Yola sthoan, sthoane, sthone, stoane (“to stand”), North Frisian staan, stoune, stuine, stun, stönje, stööne (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Faroese and Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Norwegian Nynorsk standa, stå (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan, “to stand”). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean (“to stand”), Alemannic German staa (“to stand”), Central Franconian stiehn, stohn, stonn (“to stand”), Cimbrian stean (“to stand”), Dutch staan (“to stand”), German stehen (“to stand”), Low German stahn, staon (“to stand”), Luxembourgish stoen (“to stand”), Vilamovian śtejn (“to stand”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “to stand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stå (“to stand”), Faroese stá (“to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Breton and Cornish sevel (“to stand”), Welsh sefyll (“to stand”), Latin stō (“to stand”), Greek σταυρός (stavrós, “cross”), Albanian shtyllë (“pillar; column”), Latvian stāvēt (“to stand”), Lithuanian stóti, stovėti (“to stand”), Belarusian стая́ць (stajácʹ, “to stand”), Bulgarian стоя́ (stojá, “to stand, stay”), Czech stát (“to stand”), Macedonian стои (stoi, “to stand”), Polish stać, stojeć (“to stand”), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”), Serbo-Croatian ста̏јати, stȁjati (“to stand”), Slovak stáť (“to stand”), Slovene státi (“to stand”), Ukrainian стоя́ти (stojáty, “to stand”), Armenian ստվար (stvar, “large, thick; dense”), Ossetian стын (styn, “to stand up”), Northern Kurdish rawestîn (“to stand”), Persian ایستادن (istâdan), وایسادن (vâysâdan), وایستادن (vâystâdan, “to stand up”), Tocharian A ṣtäm- (“to stand”), Tocharian B stäm- (“to stand”), Sanskrit स्था (sthā, “to stand”).

verb stands · standing · stood · standen · stand

  1. copulative, intransitive To support oneself on the feet in an erect position. Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
  2. intransitive To rise to one’s feet; to stand up. Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
  3. copulative, intransitive To remain motionless. Do not leave your car standing in the road.
  4. intransitive To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation. They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
  5. transitive To place in an upright or standing position. He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
  6. intransitive To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated. Paris stands on the Seine.
  7. intransitive To measure when erect on the feet. His face, as I grant, in spite of spite / Has a broad-blown comeliness, red and white, / And six feet two, as I think, he stands; […]
  8. intransitive, usually To be present, to have welled up. many an orphan’s water-standing eye
  9. intransitive, with infinitive, with to To be positioned to gain or lose. He stands to get a good price for the house.
  10. transitive To tolerate. I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
  11. copulative, intransitive To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe. [R]eaders by whose judgment I would stand or fall […]
  12. copulative, intransitive To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. The king granted the Jews[…]to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
  13. copulative, intransitive, obsolete To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. sacrifices[…]which stood only in meats and drinks
  14. intransitive To act as an umpire.
  15. transitive To undergo; withstand; hold up. The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
  16. UK, intransitive To be a candidate (in an election). He is standing for election to the local council.
  17. intransitive To remain valid. What I said yesterday still stands.
  18. transitive To oppose, usually as a team, in competition. "Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. / "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
  19. transitive To cover the expense of; to pay for. to stand a round of drinks
  20. intransitive To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation. Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
  21. intransitive To be consistent; to agree; to accord. Doubt me not, by Heauen, I vvill doe nothing / But vvhat may ſtand vvith honour: […]
  22. intransitive To appear in court.
  23. intransitive Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.). To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta[…].
  24. copulative, intransitive To remain without ruin or injury. My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.
  25. To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.

noun stands

  1. The act of standing. I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.
  2. A defensive position or effort. The Commander says we will make our stand here.
  3. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
  4. A period of performance in a given location or venue. They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
  5. A device to hold something upright or aloft. He set the music upon the stand and began to play.  an umbrella stand;  a hat-stand
  6. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box. She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
  7. historical An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange. When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […]
  8. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs. This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
  9. A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
  10. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game. One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.
  11. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
  12. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait. a taxi stand
  13. Australia The place a shearer takes in a shearing shed. At the respective ‘stands’ assigned to them stood the rival foes, each silently adjusting his shearing paraphernalia.
  14. US, dated The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc. a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
  15. US, abbreviation, ellipsis, historical Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).tavern stand
  16. Grandstand. (often in the plural) Are your seats in the stands or on the floor?
  17. A partnership. England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.
  18. collective A single set of arms (weaponry). The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
  19. obsolete Rank; post; station; standing. Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
  20. dated A state of perplexity or embarrassment. to be at a stand what to do
  21. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
  22. A location or position where one may stand. Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
  23. An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper. The cost of the printing alone will average $2 a 'stand.' The sheets are about 28x42 inches and are in four colors, which means they must go through the process four times.
  24. collective A group of flamingos. Woodland Park’s stand of flamingos are all past breeding age

stand²

  • /ˈstænd/ UK
  • [ˈstænd] UK
  • /ˈstand/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈstand] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈstand/ Northern England, Scotland
  • [ˈständ] Northern England, Scotland
  • /ˈstænd/ Australia
  • [ˈstæːnd] Australia
  • /ˈstɛnd/ New Zealand
  • [ˈstɛnd] New Zealand
  • /ˈstænd/ Canada, US
  • [ˈsteə̯nd] ~ [ˈstɛə̯nd] Canada, US
  • /ˈstænd/
  • [ˈste̞ːnd] ~ [ˈstɛːnd]

Rhymes with -ænd

Where it comes from

From Middle English stand, stande, stond, stonde, stoonde, probably from Middle Dutch stande, from Old Dutch *standan (“to stand”), from Frankish *standan.

Forms with -o- may show influence of stonden (“stand”, verb).

noun stands

  1. Scotland, US, dated A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask. Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.
  2. obsolete A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

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