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Webster 1828 Edition


Stan

STAN

, as a termination, is said to have expressed the superlative degree; as in Athelstan, most noble; Dunstan, the highest. But qu. Stan, in Saxon, is stone.

Definition 2024


Stan

Stan

See also: stan, śtan, stán, ştan, -stan, stan', and -стан

English

Proper noun

Stan

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Stanley.
    • 2010, Kate Atkinson, Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie), Random House (ISBN 9781409094524), page 307
      Stan Jessop taught at a different school now but lived in the same small 1930s semi-detached as he had done ten years ago. Stan made him sound like an old allotment guy but he was only thirty-six.
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Stanislav.

Anagrams

stan

stan

See also: Stan, śtan, stán, ştan, -stan, stan', and -стан

English

Noun

stan (plural stans)

  1. (slang, sometimes pejorative) An extremely loyal and obsessed fan, particularly one whose fixation with a celebrity is unhealthy or intrusive.
Hypernyms

Etymology 2

  • Back formation from names of countries that end with -stan.

Noun

stan (plural stans)

  1. Singular form of the generic term stans meaning some ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kasakhstan.
    • 2015 July 30, Jules Boykoff, “Beijing and Almaty contest Winter Olympics in human rights nightmare”, in The Guardian[]:
    • This is a stan with a plan. Unlike Uzbekistan.

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from South Proto-Slavic *stanъ (lodging) (compare Bulgarian стан (stan) ‘camp’, Serbo-Croatian ста̑н (stȃn) ‘apartment’); Romanian stână and Greek στάνη (stáni) also from Slavic.

Noun

stan m

  1. shepherd's hut
  2. pen (for sheep)

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m

  1. tent

Declension


Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stāną.

Verb

stān

  1. to stand

Descendants


Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stāino-, *stī-no- (a suffixed form of *stāi- (to be solid, to crowd together)); cognate with Old Frisian stēn, Old Saxon stēn, Old Dutch stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Danish and Swedish sten), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek στῖον (stîon, pebble), Slavic *stēnā- (Bulgarian and Russian стена (stena), Czech stěna (wall)).

Pronunciation

Noun

stān m

  1. stone

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants


Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stāną.

Verb

stān

  1. to stand

Conjugation


Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

stan m inan

  1. state (of affairs), condition
  2. state (political division of the United States)
  3. (rare) state (sovereign polity)

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (to stand, stay), whence also stȁti (to stand), stȁviti (to set, place), stȁdo (herd) and stȏl (table).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stâːn/
  • Rhymes: -âːn

Noun

stȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ста̑н)

  1. flat, apartment
  2. loom (tkàlačkī stȃn)

Declension

Derived terms

Quotations

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:stan.

References

  • stan” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (to stand, stay), whence also stáť (to stand), staviť (to set, place), stádo (herd) and stôl (table).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m (genitive singular stanu, nominative plural stany, declension pattern of dub)

  1. tent
  2. (slang) erection, hard-on

Declension


Swedish

Alternative forms

  • sta'n

Etymology

Contraction of staden, definite singular of stad.

Noun

stan

  1. (colloquial) the town, the city
    stan
    downtown

Usage notes

  • Stockholmers insist that stan always refers to Stockholm and no other cities. The phrase inte i stan (not in the town) to them means outside of Stockholm, but to other Swedes it means outside of any town, i.e. in the countryside.