stond

English

Etymology

For stand.

Noun

stond (plural stonds)

1. (obsolete) stop; halt; hindrance

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?) "Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises." Francis Bacon, Of Studies, 1625

2. (obsolete) A stand; a post; a station.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• don'ts

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔnt/
• Hyphenation: stond
• Rhymes: -ɔnt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stonde, from Old Dutch stunda (“time, while”), from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“time, while”). More at stound. Cognate with German Stunde

Noun

stond f (plural stonden, diminutive stondje n)

1. time; point in time, moment
2. age, epoch
3. hour

Synonyms

• (chronology): uur

Derived terms

• aanstonds
• avondstond
• doodsstond
• kortstondig
• middagstond
• morgenstond
• noenestond
• ochtendstond
• schemerstond
• terstond

Etymology 2

See staan.

Verb

stond

1. singular past indicative of staan