stond

English

Alternative forms

• stound

Etymology

For stand.

Noun

stond (plural stonds)

1. (obsolete) stop; halt; hindrance
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Studies”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A stand; a post; a station.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     when he saw the Damsell passe away,
     He left his stond, and her pursewd apace

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• don't's, don'ts

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

stond m or f (plural stonden, diminutive stondje n) (dated)

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

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: stonde

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stond

1. singular past indicative of staan