Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to stance
Participle: stanced
Gerund: stancing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | stance |
| you | stance |
| he;she;it | stances |
| we | stance |
| you | stance |
| they | stance |
Perfect
| I | have stanced |
| you | have stanced |
| he;she;it | has stanced |
| we | have stanced |
| you | have stanced |
| they | have stanced |
Past
| I | stanced |
| you | stanced |
| he;she;it | stanced |
| we | stanced |
| you | stanced |
| they | stanced |
Pluperfect
| I | had stanced |
| you | had stanced |
| he;she;it | had stanced |
| we | had stanced |
| you | had stanced |
| they | had stanced |
Future
| I | will stance |
| you | will stance |
| he;she;it | will stance |
| we | will stance |
| you | will stance |
| they | will stance |
Future Perfect
| I | will have stanced |
| you | will have stanced |
| he;she;it | will have stanced |
| we | will have stanced |
| you | will have stanced |
| they | will have stanced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | stance |
| you | stance |
| he;she;it | stance |
| we | stance |
| you | stance |
| they | stance |
Perfect
| I | have stanced |
| you | have stanced |
| he;she;it | have stanced |
| we | have stanced |
| you | have stanced |
| they | have stanced |
Imperfect
| I | stanced |
| you | stanced |
| he;she;it | stanced |
| we | stanced |
| you | stanced |
| they | stanced |
Pluperfect
| I | had stanced |
| you | had stanced |
| he;she;it | had stanced |
| we | had stanced |
| you | had stanced |
| they | had stanced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would stance |
| you | would stance |
| he;she;it | would stance |
| we | would stance |
| you | would stance |
| they | would stance |
Perfect
| I | would have stanced |
| you | would have stanced |
| he;she;it | would have stanced |
| we | would have stanced |
| you | would have stanced |
| they | would have stanced |
Imperative
| you | stance |
| we | Let's stance |
| you | stance |
Verbs conjugated like 'stance'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'stance'
scance,
slance,
stanch,
askance,
chance,
dance,
distance,
elance,
fiance,
glance,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English staunce (“place to stand; battle station; position; standing in society; circumstance, situation; stanchion”), from Old French estance (“predicament; situation; sojourn, stay”) (compare modern French stance (“stanza; position one stands in when golfing”)), from Italian stanza (“room, standing place; stanza”), from Vulgar Latin *stantia, from Latin stō (“to stand; to remain, stay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”). The word is cognate with Spanish estante (“shelf”) and a doublet of stanza.
2. The verb is derived from the noun.
3. Compare typologically Czech postoj (“stance (the way of holding a body); stance (point of view)”) (cognate via PIE). Also see position, posture. See: Latin '
stō'.
Sample Sentences
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Rob Roy ſtood watch / On a hill for to catch / The booty for ought that I ſa', man, / For he ne'er advanced, / From the place he was ſtanc'd, / 'Till no more to do there at a' man, […] [1776, “Sheriff-Muir”, in [David Herd], editor, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. […] In Two Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by John Wotherspoon, for James Dickson and Charles Elliott, →OCLC, pages 107–108:]