stand

Forms

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1): stand
past (v2): stood
past participle (v3): stood
present participle: standing
3rd person singular: stands

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural: stands

Definitions

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1.To position or be positioned physically:
- Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
- Do not leave your car standing in the road.
- He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
2.To position or be positioned mentally:
- He stands to get a good price for the house.
- I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
- Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
3.To position or be positioned socially:
- What I said yesterday still stands.
- He is standing for election to the local council.
- The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
4.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[…].

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.A defensive position or effort.
- The Commander says we will make our stand here.
2.A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
- There are also a growing number of lesbians in prison who are out about being lesbian and that stand in and of itself is much stronger than being out on the outside. These women are in much greater danger.
3.A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
- They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
4.The act of standing.
- I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.

Frequency

Overall

Very common· #329

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Common
General reading & writing: Very common
Academic: Rare
Literature: Common

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Etymology

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-.

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”).

VerbVerb×A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

VerbVerb×A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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Antonyms

Word family

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.