stand – English noun declension

English noun forms of stand

Noun: stand
Singularstand
Pluralstands

Sample Sentences

  • I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings. [October 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 499]
  • The Commander says we will make our stand here.
  • 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 danger. [1991 December 1, Rebecca Levine, Judy Greenspan, “A Great Need”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 9:]
  • They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
  • They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
  • 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. [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:]
  • 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. [2009, B.O.B Wild, The Dogs of War, page 69:]
  • 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. [2023 October 11, Victoria Bekiempis, “Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend to take stand again after day of dramatic testimony”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • When a member has failed to comply with his bargains the fact is announced from one of the stands, […] [1923, Julius E. Day, The Stockbroker's Office: Organisation, Management and Accounts, page 99:]
  • Just as that clock is striking now, the two waiters appear on the stands and take off their hats, as if to a corpse. [1934, Frances Cosgrove, Scenes for Student Actors: Dramatic Selections from New Plays, page 8:]
  • This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
  • Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil. [2000, James Beament, The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound, page 159:]
  • 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. [1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Truth”, in Essays:]
  • Antonia's patience now was at a stand—
  • "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there,"
  • She whispered[…] [1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:]
  • a taxi stand
  • At the respective ‘stands’ assigned to them stood the rival foes, each silently adjusting his shearing paraphernalia. [1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 87:]
  • a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
  • 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. [2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:]
  • 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. [2012 May 21, Tom Fordyce, “England v West Indies: Hosts cruise home in Lord's Test”, in BBC Sport:]
  • The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons. [1927, Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, Paragon House, published 1990, →ISBN, page 170:]
  • Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand, I mean not to descend. [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:]
  • to be at a stand what to do
  • Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you. [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):]
  • 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. [1900, Marketing Communications, volume 30, page 12:]
  • 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. [1951 February 24, Billboard, page 52:]
  • Woodland Park’s stand of flamingos are all past breeding age [2024 February 12, Andy Corbley, “Quick-Thinking Flight Attendant and Passengers Save 6 Flamingo Eggs Aboard Flight”, in Good News Network:]
  • But he loves taking pictures of all critters, he said, and noticed a stand of flamingos wading in a salt pond. [2014 March 12, Matt Davenport, “Carmel man snaps photo of rare black flamingo”, in Monterey Herald, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2026:]
  • An anteater at a Swedish zoo massacred a stand of flamingos [2010, Harper's, volumes 320-324, numbers 1916-1945, Harper's Magazine Foundation:]

Etymology

1. 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-.
2. Cognates
3. 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”). See: Old English Nouns 'standan', Latin Nouns 'stō', Greek Nouns 'σταυρός', Czech Nouns 'stát', Slovak Nouns 'stáť'.

Verbs referencing "stand"

Danish Nouns stand, French Nouns stand, Italian Nouns stand, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns stand, Romanian Nouns stand, English Nouns state, English Nouns station, German Nouns Stand, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns stå, Swedish Nouns stånd, Russian Nouns стенд.