/stænd/, [steənd]
OriginFrom 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, stehn (“to stand”), Low German stahn, staon (“to stand”), Luxembourgish stoen (“to stand”), Vilamovian śtejn (“to stand”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “to stand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, 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”).
- copulative, intransitiveTo support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
“Here I stand, wondering what to do next.”
“I can't reach the celing. Get me a chair to stand on.”
“Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.”
- intransitiveTo rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
“Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.”
- copulative, intransitiveTo remain motionless.
“Do not leave your car standing in the road.”
“The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.”
“The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.”
- intransitiveTo 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 th”
“He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […]”
- transitiveTo place in an upright or standing position.
“He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.”
“At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls;”
- intransitiveTo occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
“Paris stands on the Seine.”
“The chapel ſtands on the South ſide of the ſquare, near the governor’s houſe.”
“Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.”
- intransitiveTo 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; […]”
- intransitive, usuallyTo be present, to have welled up.
“many an orphan’s water-standing eye”
“now my heart beginneth to melt within me being wounded (with that the tears stood in his eyes) to see the faces of some here present, whom J most earnestly love, and now must depart from with shame […”
“[He] pull’d me up again, and then giving me tvvo or three Kiſſes again, thank’d me for my kind yielding to him; and vvas ſo overcome with the Satisfaction and Joy of it, that I savv Tears ſtand in his”
- intransitive, with-infinitive, with-toTo be positioned to gain or lose.
“He stands to get a good price for the house.”
- transitiveTo tolerate.
“I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.”
“I can’t stand him.”
“[I]f you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is”
- copulative, intransitiveTo 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 […]”
- copulative, intransitiveTo 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.”
“the standing pattern of their imitation”
- copulative, intransitive, obsoleteTo be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
“sacrifices[…]which stood only in meats and drinks”
“Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.”
“Thou seest how it stands with me[…], and that I may not tarry.”
- intransitiveTo act as an umpire.
- transitiveTo undergo; withstand; hold up.
“The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.”
“Love stood the siege.”
“Bid him disband his legions,[…]/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.”
- British, intransitiveTo be a candidate (in an election).
“He is standing for election to the local council.”
“He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.”
- intransitiveTo remain valid.
“What I said yesterday still stands.”
- transitiveTo oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
“"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. / "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.”
“The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."”
“"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play." […] "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.”
- transitiveTo cover the expense of; to pay for.
“to stand a round of drinks”
“to stand a treat”
“to stand bail (security in respect of an arrested person)”
- intransitiveTo 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.”
“President Obama gave his first extended television interview since the protests in Libya and Egypt to Telemundo on Wednesday night, and he took the opportunity to explain the U.S.'s role in the develo”
- intransitiveTo be consistent; to agree; to accord.
“Doubt me not, by Heauen, I vvill doe nothing / But vvhat may ſtand vvith honour: […]”
- intransitiveTo appear in court.
- intransitiveOf 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[…].”
- copulative, intransitiveTo remain without ruin or injury.
“My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.”
“The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.”
- To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- The act of standing.
“I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.”
- A defensive position or effort.
“The Commander says we will make our stand here.”
- 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 da”
- 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.”
- 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”
“There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.”
“Whilst I nipped out to get the booze Eddie would ease the large bread stand at the far end of the shop out from the counter so as to leave a gap behind, big enouh to take the basket. I would streak in”
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
“She took the stand and quietly answered questions.”
“Shortly after Ellison started at Alameda around fall 2018 as a trader, she learned that the company was financially far sicker than she had known, she said on the stand.”
- historicalAn 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, […]”
“Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear on the stands and take off their hats, as if to a corpse.”
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
“This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.”
“Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.”
- 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.
- 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”
“Antonia's patience now was at a stand—
"Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there,"
She whispered[…]”
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- US, datedThe situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
“a good, bad, or convenient stand for business”
- US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historicalEllipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
- Grandstand. (often in the plural)
“The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] w”
- 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.”
- A single set, as of arms.
“The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.”
- obsoleteRank; post; station; standing.
“Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.”
- datedA state of perplexity or embarrassment.
“to be at a stand what to do”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
“Crew of 14 billers and a four-man brigade will be 10 days ahead and will use all special paper including new jungle and animal designs being prepared by Enquirer Printing Company.
New this season will”
- Scotland, US, datedA container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
“Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.”
“[…]one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s.,[…]”
“Therefore at length sir Iefferie bethought him of a feat whereby he might both visit the alestond, and also keepe his othe.”
- obsoleteA weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
Formsstands(present, singular, third-person) · standing(participle, present) · stood(past) · stood(participle, past) · standen(obsolete, participle, past) · stand(nonstandard, participle, past) · stand(infinitive) · stand(first-person, present, singular) · stood(first-person, past, singular) · stand(present, second-person, singular) · standest(archaic, present, second-person, singular) · stood(past, second-person, singular) · stoodst(archaic, past, second-person, singular) · stoodest(archaic, past, second-person, singular) · standeth(archaic, present, singular, third-person) · stood(past, singular, third-person) · stand(plural, present) · stood(past, plural) · stand(present, subjunctive) · stood(past, subjunctive)