stand with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands with
form: standing with
form: stood with
form: stood with
Senses: examples: text: We have declared that we stand with the protestors.
text: "I stand with Bernie Sanders today because he stood with me," Jackson said to cheers. "I stand with him because he's never lost his taste for justice for the people. I stand with him because he stands with you."
ref: 2020 March 9, Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2020:
text: People feel that Ardern "doesn’t preach at them; she's standing with them," Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister from 1999 to 2008, told me.
ref: 2020 April 19, Uri Friedman, “New Zealand's Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2020:
text: "We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes," the joint statement said.
ref: 2022 October 11, “G7 vows to support Ukraine for as long as it takes”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2022:
glosses: To back or side with; to support (in reference to literally standing alongside someone to show one's support).
examples: text: But still remember, added she, that you must not stand with him about the price: Whatever he shall ask of you, you must not fail to give it.
ref: 1714, François Pétis de la Croix (tr. Ambrose Philips), The Thousand and One Days:
glosses: To argue or dispute with (especially in the context of haggling or bargaining).
examples: text: And it is an exhalacion, hot and drye, included in the concauities of the earth, where it seeking a passage out, and not fynding, it is laboured, being so laboured, it is rarified, and beinge rarifyed, is kindled, bycause great rarefaction standeth with great heate.
ref: 1572, John Jones, The bathes of Bathes ayde, page 11:
glosses: To exist alongside; to coexist.
examples: text: Were it not well, my liege, to send a page to the top of that sand-bank? Or would it stand with your pleasure that I prick forward?
ref: 1825, Walter Scott, chapter XXVII, in The Talisman:
glosses: To be in agreement with.
examples: text: A Barber stood with her on Saturday night very late, when he had shau'd all his Customers, and as I thinke, came to trimme her.
ref: 1631, Thomas Dekker, Match Me in London:
glosses: To spend time with.
examples: text: A number of large fishing-boats were coming in from sea, and standing with us into the roads; and although we were running at the rate of seven knots an hour, they passed us with great rapidity.
ref: 1837, George Windsor Earl, The Eastern Seas, page 12:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To travel alongside.
examples: text: Another advantage would be found, when a Printing-houſe ſhould happen to be ſold, that the Letter of it would ſtand with another Fount of the ſame Body.
ref: 1755, John Smith, The Printer's Grammar, page 35:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To align with.
raw_tags: of a character
examples: text: She testified that she was standing with another sex worker on a street just south of the Downtown Eastside on a snowy winter day when a blue Chevrolet drove up.
ref: 2011 October 31, “Sex worker tells inquiry Pickton raped her”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stand, with.