stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stænd/
ipa: [steənd]
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: stands
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-.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots stand (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), West Frisian stean (“to stand”), dialectal German standen (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Norwegian standa (“to stand”), Faroese standa (“to stand”), Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Irish seas, Latin stare, Lithuanian stóti, Old Church Slavonic стояти (stojati), Albanian shtoj (“to increase”), Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put”), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hištaⁱti), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean, Dutch staan, German stehen, Danish stå.
Senses: examples: text: I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.
ref: October 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 499
glosses: The act of standing.
examples: text: The Commander says we will make our stand here.
glosses: A defensive position or effort.
examples: text: They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
text: 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.
ref: 1991 December 1, Rebecca Levine, Judy Greenspan, “A Great Need”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 9:
glosses: A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
examples: text: They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.  They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
glosses: A period of performance in a given location or venue.
examples: text: He set the music upon the stand and began to play.  an umbrella stand;  a hat-stand
text: 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.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
text: 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 into the shop like a whippet and be behind the bread stand before you could blink.
ref: 2009, B.O.B Wild, The Dogs of War, page 69:
glosses: A device to hold something upright or aloft.
examples: text: She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
text: 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.
ref: 2023 October 11, Victoria Bekiempis, “Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend to take stand again after day of dramatic testimony”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
examples: text: When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […]
ref: 1923, Julius E. Day, The Stockbroker's Office: Organisation, Management and Accounts, page 99:
text: Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear on the stands and take off their hats, as if to a corpse.
ref: 1934, Frances Cosgrove, Scenes for Student Actors: Dramatic Selections from New Plays, page 8:
glosses: An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
examples: text: This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
text: Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.
ref: 2000, James Beament, The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound, page 159:
glosses: A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Truth”, in Essays:
text: Antonia's patience now was at a stand—
 "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there,"
 She whispered[…]
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:
glosses: A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
glosses: A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
examples: text: a taxi stand
glosses: A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
examples: text: a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
glosses: The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
glosses: Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
examples: text: 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] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.
ref: 2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Grandstand. (often in the plural)
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2012 May 21, Tom Fordyce, “England v West Indies: Hosts cruise home in Lord's Test”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A partnership.
examples: text: The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
ref: 1927, Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, Paragon House, published 1990, →ISBN, page 170:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: plural often stand
glosses: A single set, as of arms.
examples: text: Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: Rank; post; station; standing.
examples: text: to be at a stand what to do
glosses: A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A location or position where one may stand.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1900, Marketing Communications, volume 30, page 12:
text: 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 be a 20-sheet poster depicting 21 K-M elephants parading to local Chevrolet agencies. Deal calls for use of the 20-sheet on poster panels where the auto agency has space allotment. Smaller versions of the same art also will be used.
Circulation of Kelly-Miller heralds, which last season averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 copies per stand, will be in for one of the greatest boosts this year.
ref: 1951 February 24, Billboard, page 52:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from stand (noun)
word: ash stand
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word: at a stand
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word: axle stand
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word: bandstand
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word: bicycle stand
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word: bike stand
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word: blow this Popsicle stand
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word: blow this pop stand
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word: bus stand
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word: card stand
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word: chopstick stand
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word: clamp stand
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word: clothes stand
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word: coat stand
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word: cock-stand
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word: come to a stand
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word: concessions stand
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word: concession stand
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word: cruet stand
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word: dead stand
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word: deer stand
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word: dish stand
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word: farm stand
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word: final stand
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word: gasoline stand
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word: grandstand
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word: guinea stand
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word: half-night stand
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word: hatstand
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word: home stand
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word: hunting stand
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word: inkstand
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word: jack stand
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word: keg stand
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word: kickstand
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word: last stand
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word: lemonade stand
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word: make a stand
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word: muffin stand
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word: music stand
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word: one-minute stand
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word: one-night stand
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word: on the stand
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word: optic stand
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word: outstanding
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word: retort stand
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word: ring stand
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word: Sheffield stand
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word: smoke stand
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word: spirit-stand
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word: stable-stand
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word: stable stand
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word: stand hawk
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word: stand of arms
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word: standout
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word: stand pie
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word: standpoint
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word: standstill
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word: take a firm stand
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word: take a stand
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word: take the stand
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word: tank stand
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word: tankstand
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word: taxi stand
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word: track stand
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word: tree stand
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word: TV stand
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word: umbrella stand
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word: upstanding
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word: washhand-stand
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word: washhand stand
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word: wash stand
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word: witness stand
Related terms: stance
stanza