stound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staʊnd/
ipa: /stuːnd/
ipa: /staʊnd/
ipa: /stund/
rhymes: -aʊnd
rhymes: -uːnd
Forms: form: stounds
form: stund
form: stoind
form: stoond
form: stoon
form: stoun
form: stuind
Etymology: From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
Cognate with Scots stound (“while, period of time, moment, sudden pain, pang, stroke, blow”), dated Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), Low German Stund (“hour”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.
Senses: examples: text: What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
ref: 1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564)
topics: chronology
hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: An hour.
glosses: A tide, season.
examples: text: He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.
ref: 1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman:
synonyms: word: span
word: duration
word: interval
word: period
word: period of time
word: tide
word: time
word: time interval
word: time period
word: timespan
word: space
word: span
word: stound
glosses: A time, length of time, hour, while.
examples: text: Listen to me a little stound.
text: And in that same stound / All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.
ref: 1883 [a. 1400], Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerk's Tale”, in Henry Morley, editor, Cassell's Library of English Literature, volume 1, page 48:
synonyms: word: jiffy
word: second
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A brief span of time, moment, instant.
glosses: A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
examples: text: No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage
ref: 1857, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture:
text: ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
examples: text: How many pipes, as many sounds Do still impart To your Sonne's hart / As many deadly wounds : How many strokes, as many stounds, Each stroke a dart, Each stound a smart, Poore captive me confounds.
ref: 1807, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria:
text: A colt is made of three stounds, I think; it is lighter, much, than the cat. The punishment with the colt is always given without stripping, over the clothes.
ref: 1843, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the intended mutiny on board the United States Brig of War Somers, on the high seas:
glosses: A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
examples: text: Several stounds of pain in the cleft between great and second toe (anterior tibial nerve). I forget which side, but I think it was the right. Slight pains in left temple, > pressure. Pain in upper part of right eyeball.
ref: 1893, The Homoeopathic World
text: […] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
ref: 1895, Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith:
glosses: A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
examples: text: Lightly he started up out of that stound.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: we stood as in a stound, / And wet with tears, like dew, the ground
ref: 1720, John Gay, “Prologue”, in Poems on Several Occasions:
glosses: Astonishment; amazement.
Derived terms: ill stound
in a stound
stoundmeal
umbestound
umstound
upon a stound