Word: stand Part of Speech: noun 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 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”). Pronunciation: /ˈstænd/, [ˈstænd], /ˈstand/, [ˈstand], [ˈständ] 1. The act of standing. Example: I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings. 2. A defensive position or effort. Example: The Commander says we will make our stand here. 3. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. Example: They took a firm stand against copyright infringement. Example: 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. 4. A period of performance in a given location or venue. Example: They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees. Example: They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week. 5. A device to hold something upright or aloft. Example: He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand Example: 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. 6. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box. Example: She took the stand and quietly answered questions. Example: 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. 7. An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange. Labels: historical Example: When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […] Example: Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear on the stands and take off their hats, as if to a corpse. 8. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs. Example: This stand of pines is older than the one next to it. Example: Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil. 9. 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. 10. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game. Example: 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. Example: Antonia's patience now was at a stand— "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," She whispered[…] 11. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand. 12. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait. Example: a taxi stand 13. The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc. Labels: US, dated Example: a good, bad, or convenient stand for business 14. Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”). Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical 15. Grandstand. (often in the plural) Example: 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. 16. A partnership. Example: 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. 17. A single set, as of arms. Example: The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons. 18. Rank; post; station; standing. Labels: obsolete Example: Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend. 19. A state of perplexity or embarrassment. Labels: dated Example: to be at a stand what to do 20. 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. 21. A location or position where one may stand. Example: Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you. 22. An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper. Example: 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. Example: 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.