stand meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

stand

verb

UK /ˈstænd/ · CA, US /ˈstænd/

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”).

25 senses

1To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
2To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
3To remain motionless.
4To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
5To place in an upright or standing position.
6To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed…
7To measure when erect on the feet.
8To be present, to have welled up.
9To be positioned to gain or lose.
10To tolerate.
11To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail…
12To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be…
13To be in some particular state; to have essence or…
14To act as an umpire.
15To undergo; withstand; hold up.
16To be a candidate (in an election).
17To remain valid.
18To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
19To cover the expense of; to pay for.
20To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in…
21To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
22To appear in court.
23Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified…
24To remain without ruin or injury.
25To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it…

› To position or be positioned physically:

To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.

Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
I can't reach the ceiling. Get me a chair to stand on.

3 more examples

Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; […]1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:
It’s recited in schools across the US every day by students standing stiffly with their hands over their hearts. […] The pledge made headlines this week after a sixth-grade student in Florida told a substitute teacher he would not stand for the pledge because he believed the American flag symbolized discrimination against blacks.2019 February 19, Doug Criss, “Here’s why students don’t have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2020:

To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.

Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.

To remain motionless.

Do not leave your car standing in the road.
The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 2:9:

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The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:

To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […]1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

To place in an upright or standing position.

He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
At one time a "standard test" for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; [...].1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:

To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.

Paris stands on the Seine.
The chapel ſtands on the South ſide of the ſquare, near the governor’s houſe.1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 6:

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Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.2017 October 2, "Las Vegas shooting: At least 58 dead at Mandalay Bay Hotel", in bbc.com, BBC

To measure when erect on the feet.

His face, as I grant, in spite of spite / Has a broad-blown comeliness, red and white, / And six feet two, as I think, he stands; […]1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part XIII, stanza 1, page 44:
She must stand five feet five—possibly six. At that, with the tread she has, she will take a 4½ to 5.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

Usually, Of tears To be present, to have welled up.

many an orphan’s water-standing eyec. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:
now my heart beginneth to melt within me being wounded (with that the tears stood in his eyes) to see the faces of some here present, whom J most earnestly love, and now must depart from with shame […]1651, Francis Bacon, “Sir Jervas his Confession”, in A True and Historical Relation of the Poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, London: John Benson & John Playford, page 71:

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[He] pull’d me up again, and then giving me tvvo or three Kiſſes again, thank’d me for my kind yielding to him; and vvas ſo overcome with the Satisfaction and Joy of it, that I savv Tears ſtand in his Eyes.1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 222:
He takes me half-price to the play, to an extent which I sometimes fear is beyond his means; and I see the tears a standing in his eyes during the whole performance […]1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 32, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 380:
How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead […]1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 258:

› To position or be positioned mentally:

With infinitive, With to To be positioned to gain or lose.

He stands to get a good price for the house.

In the negative To tolerate.

I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
I can’t stand him.

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[I]f you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.

[R]eaders by whose judgment I would stand or fall […]1712 February 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, February 2, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 291; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.

The king granted the Jews[…]to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 8:11:
the standing pattern of their imitation1660 August 7 (Gregorian calendar), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)[Sermon preached at St. Mary’s Church in Oxon]”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], new edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] Thomas Tegg, […], published 1843, →OCLC:

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"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."2019 February 19, Doug Criss, “Here’s why students don’t have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2020:

Obsolete To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.

sacrifices[…]which stood only in meats and drinks1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 9:10:
Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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Thou seest how it stands with me[…], and that I may not tarry.1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:

› To position or be positioned socially:

Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To act as an umpire.

To undergo; withstand; hold up.

The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
Love stood the siege.1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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Bid him disband his legions,[…]/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
That not for Fame, but Virtue's better end, / He ſtood the furious Foe, the timid Friend, […]1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 16, lines 324–325:

UK To be a candidate (in an election).

He is standing for election to the local council.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.1678, Izaak Walton, The Life of Robert Sanderson:

To remain valid.

What I said yesterday still stands.

To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.

"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. / "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.1957, Matt Christopher, chapter 7, in Basketball Sparkplug:
The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."c. 1973, R. J. Childerhose, Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls, page 95:

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"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play." […] "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.1978, Louis Sachar, chapter 21, in Sideways Stories from Wayside School, page 86:

To cover the expense of; to pay for.

to stand a round of drinks
to stand a treat

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to stand bail (security in respect of an arrested person)
I will either stand a glass of grog, or thou shalt pay the like for me, my lad1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.

Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
President Obama gave his first extended television interview since the protests in Libya and Egypt to Telemundo on Wednesday night, and he took the opportunity to explain the U.S.'s role in the developing world while clarifying where the country stands with Egypt right now.2022 September 13, Connor Simpson, “Obama is neutral on Egypt right now”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020:

To be consistent; to agree; to accord.

Doubt me not, by Heauen, I vvill doe nothing / But vvhat may ſtand vvith honour: […]c. 1619 (date written), P[hilip] M[assinger], N[athan] F[ield], The Fatall Dowry: A Tragedy. […], London: […] Iohn Norton, for Francis Constable, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, signature I2, verso:

To appear in court.

Nautical, Transport Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).

To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta[…].1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 40:

To remain without ruin or injury.

My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy:
The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXII:

Card games, Games To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.

Derived terms: 123 terms
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stand

noun

Etymology

22 senses

1The act of standing.
2A defensive position or effort.
3A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action…
4A period of performance in a given location or venue.
5A device to hold something upright or aloft.
6The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the…
7An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
8A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
9A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in…
10A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone…
11A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or…
12A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
13The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
14Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
15Grandstand. (often in the plural)
16A partnership.
17A single set, as of arms.
18Rank; post; station; standing.
19A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
20A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut…
21A location or position where one may stand.
22An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising…

The act of standing.

I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.October 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 499

A defensive position or effort.

The Commander says we will make our stand here.

A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.

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:

A period of performance in a given location or venue.

They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.
They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.

A device to hold something upright or aloft.

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:

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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:

The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.

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:

Historical An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.

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:

A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.

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:

Business, Forestry 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.

A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.

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 small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.

A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.

a taxi stand

US, Dated The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.

a good, bad, or convenient stand for business

US, Abbreviation, Ellipsis, Historical Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Grandstand. (often in the plural)

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:

Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A partnership.

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:

Government, Military, Politics, War A single set, as of arms.

Plural often stand

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:

Obsolete Rank; post; station; standing.

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:

Dated A state of perplexity or embarrassment.

to be at a stand what to do

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.

A location or position where one may stand.

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):

Advertising, Business, Marketing An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.

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:

Derived terms: 110 terms
armstand, ash stand, at a stand, axle stand, bandstand, bedstand, bicycle stand, bike stand, blow this Popsicle stand, blow this pop stand, blow this taco stand, bookstand, bus stand, cabstand, cake stand, cakestand, candlestand, card stand, checkstand, chopstick stand, clamp stand, clothes stand, coachstand, coatstand, coat stand, cock-stand, come to a stand, concessions stand, concession stand, counterstand, cruet stand, dead stand, deer stand, dish stand, farm stand, farmstand, final stand, frogstand, gasoline stand, grandstand, guinea stand, half-night stand, hallstand, handstand, hardstand, hatstand, headstand, highstand, homestand, home stand, hunting stand, inkstand, jack stand, keg stand, kickstand, lampstand, last stand, lemonade stand, lowstand, make a stand, monostand, muffin stand, music stand, newsstand, nightstand, one-minute stand, one-night stand, on the stand, optic stand, outstanding, plantstand, retort stand, rickstand, ring stand, Sheffield stand, smoke stand, spirit-stand, stable-stand, stable stand, stackstand, standard, standfirst, stand hawk, standish, stand of arms, standout, stand pie, standpipe, standpoint, standstill, tailstand, take a firm stand, take a stand, take the stand, tank stand, tankstand, taxi stand, track stand, tree stand, treestand, TV stand, umbrella stand, upstanding, washhand-stand, washhand stand, wash stand, washstand, wheelstand, witness stand, workstand
Related terms: stance, stanza

stand

noun

Etymology From Middle English stand, stande, stond, stonde, stoonde, probably from Middle Dutch stande, from Old Dutch *standan (“to stand”), from Frankish *standan. Forms with -o- may show influence of stonden (“stand”, verb).

Scotland, US, Dated A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.

Item, for a ſtande of small ale - ii s.1559, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth. Among Which are Interspersed, Other Solemnities, Public Expenditures, and Remarkable Events, During the Reign of that Illustrious Princess. […], volume I, […] the Editor [John Nichols], […], published 1788, page 45:
[…]one gialfatte, 3 stannes 3s.,[…]1582, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641, Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York (The Publications of the Surtees Society; volume XXXIII), Durham: […] for the Society by George Andrews, […]. London: Whittaker & Co., […]; T. & W. Boone, […]. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1857, page 172:

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Therefore at length sir Iefferie bethought him of a feat whereby he might both visit the alestond, and also keepe his othe.1588, Martin Mar-prelate, An Epistle to the Terrible Priests of the Convocation House, London: John Petheram, published 1842, page 54:
Memp. Ile teach my wag-halter to know grapes from barley. Pris. And I mine to discerne a spigot from a faucet. Spe. And I mine, to iudge the difference between a blacke boule and a siluer goblet. Stel. And mine shall learne the oddes betweene a stand and a hogs-head; yet I cannot choose but laugh to see how my wag aunswered mee, when I stroke him for drinking sacke.1594, John Lyly, “Mother Bombie”, in The Complete Works of John Lyly, published 1902, page 193:
As for the Tapſter, he fled into the Cellar, rapping out fiue or ſixe plaine Country oathes, that hée would drowne himſelfe in a moſt villanous Stand of Ale, if the ſicke Londoner ſtoode at the doore any longer.1603, Thomas Dekker, “The VVonderfull Yeare”, in The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, volume I, published 1884, pages 123–124:
I have the rareſt Stand of Ale to drink out in the Afternoon, with three or four honeſt Country-fellows;1672, Thomas Shadwell, “Epsom-Wells”, in The Works of Thomas Shadwell, volume the second, London: […] James Knapton, […]; and Jacob Tonson, […], published 1720, page 196:

Obsolete A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

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