standard

adjective most standard

1. comparative, standard Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

   Similar: customary, ordinary, typical, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent

2. comparative, standard, of a tree or shrub Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc. There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;—for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary […].
3. comparative, standard Having recognized excellence or authority. standard works in history; standard authors
4. comparative, standard Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
5. comparative, not comparable, standard, of a motor vehicle Having a manual transmission.

   Opposite: automatic

6. comparative, standard As normally supplied (not optional or modified by any extra requests). This is the standard model, but we offer a variety of customization options.

   Similar: normal, basic, ordinary · Opposite: deluxe, modified

7. comparative, standard Conforming to the standard variety.

Similar: acceptable, accepted, accustomed, book, by the book, canonical, classic, consistent, conventional, customary, definitive, desired, established, expected, habitual, law-abiding, ordinal, ordinary, orthodox, permissible, plain, procedural, recognized, regular, routinary, routine, standard, traditional, typical, uniform · Opposite: nonstandard, non-standard, atypical, off, special

noun standards

1. A level of quality or attainment. The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand

   Similar: benchmark

2. Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model. the court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech

   Similar: yardstick

3. A musical work of established popularity. I was disappointed when the concert ended with a "Tribute to Irving Berlin" that included "God Bless America" and two John Philip Sousa numbers, the "Washington Post" and "Stars and Stripes Forever." […] I think it's wrong, wrong, wrong for a gay band to play music that celebrates the martial life.
4. A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government. The Biden administration finalized the first national standard to limit dangerous “forever chemicals” found in nearly half of the drinking water in the United States.
5. The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
6. standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language.
7. A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
8. India Grade level in primary or secondary education. I am in fifth standard.
9. An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard. It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.
10. The flag or ensign carried by a military unit. His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.
11. One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
12. Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
13. A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
14. A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. In the more temperate parts of France [gardens are] part laid out for Flowers, others for Fruits, ſome Standards, ſome againſt Walls or Paliſades, [...]
15. The sheth of a plough.
16. Northern England, Scotland, in place names A cairn or tumulus.
17. Northern England, Scotland, in place names A hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit.
18. A manual transmission vehicle.
19. The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
20. An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
21. A large drinking cup. Frolic, my lords; let all the standards walk, / Ply it till every man hath ta’en his load.
22. historical A collar of mail protecting the neck. The scales generally showed on the face of the garment or defence, and we find body armour, gorgets, habergeons, standards or neck defences, and even the camailt of this class of armour.

    Similar: pisane

23. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of standard poodle Since standards are large dogs, they grow much more rapidly than miniatures and toys, which means that they require more supplements.
24. A measure for timber. To clear the fallen timber quickly, arrangements were made between British Railways and the Home Timber Merchant's Association of Scotland for the purchase of timber in the form of sleepers, crossing timbers, and wagon timbers. These arrangements have now terminated, and since the storm a total of 1

interjection

1. UK, slang An expression of agreement.

proper noun

1. Denoting the name of a universal language in various works. "I felt that I had to come," she said, as if she could tell from my face that I still wasn't getting it. She spoke Standard, with no real accent. She was dressed in pragmatic, sexless human clothes; if we hadn't been face-to-face, she could have passed for a human.

   Similar: Common