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" Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure."
Margaret Cavendish

Meaning of "stood" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF STOOD

stʊd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STOOD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stood is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb stood in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO STOOD

PRESENT

Present
I stand
you stand
he/she/it stands
we stand
you stand
they stand
Present continuous
I am standing
you are standing
he/she/it is standing
we are standing
you are standing
they are standing
Present perfect
I have stood
you have stood
he/she/it has stood
we have stood
you have stood
they have stood
Present perfect continuous
I have been standing
you have been standing
he/she/it has been standing
we have been standing
you have been standing
they have been standing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I stood
you stood
he/she/it stood
we stood
you stood
they stood
Past continuous
I was standing
you were standing
he/she/it was standing
we were standing
you were standing
they were standing
Past perfect
I had stood
you had stood
he/she/it had stood
we had stood
you had stood
they had stood
Past perfect continuous
I had been standing
you had been standing
he/she/it had been standing
we had been standing
you had been standing
they had been standing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will stand
you will stand
he/she/it will stand
we will stand
you will stand
they will stand
Future continuous
I will be standing
you will be standing
he/she/it will be standing
we will be standing
you will be standing
they will be standing
Future perfect
I will have stood
you will have stood
he/she/it will have stood
we will have stood
you will have stood
they will have stood
Future perfect continuous
I will have been standing
you will have been standing
he/she/it will have been standing
we will have been standing
you will have been standing
they will have been standing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would stood
you would stood
he/she/it would stood
we would stood
you would stood
they would stood
Conditional continuous
I would be standing
you would be standing
he/she/it would be standing
we would be standing
you would be standing
they would be standing
Conditional perfect
I would have stood
you would have stood
he/she/it would have stood
we would have stood
you would have stood
they would have stood
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been standing
you would have been standing
he/she/it would have been standing
we would have been standing
you would have been standing
they would have been standing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you stand
we let´s stand
you stand
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to stand
Past participle
stood
Present Participle
standing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STOOD

half-understood · misunderstood · understood · unwithstood · withstood

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STOOD

stony-hearted · stonyheartedness · stooge · stook · stooker · stookie · stool · stool ball · stool pigeon · stoolball · stoolie · stooly · stoop · stoopball · stooper · stooping · stoopingly · stoor · stooshie · stoozing

WORDS THAT END LIKE STOOD

blood · Bollywood · childhood · fast food · fast-food · flood · food · for good · from the wood · good · hardwood · Hollywood · hood · mood · neighborhood · out of the wood · outstood · seafood · well-understood · wood

Synonyms and antonyms of stood in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STOOD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stood» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «stood» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF STOOD

Find out the translation of stood to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of stood from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stood» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

destacado
570 millions of speakers
en

English

stood
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

खड़ा हुआ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وقفت
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

стоял
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

se
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

দাঁড়িয়ে
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

résisté
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Berdiri
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

stand
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

立っていた
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ngadeg
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đứng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நின்று
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

उभा राहिला
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

durdu
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

sorgeva
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

stał
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

стояв
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

stat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στάθηκε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

staan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stod
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sto
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stood

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STOOD»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of stood
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «stood».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stood

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «STOOD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stood.
1
Lord Acton
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
2
Aesop
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
3
Prince Andrew
Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.
4
Clement Attlee
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
5
Kurt Braunohler
For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.
6
Margaret Cavendish
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
7
Lincoln Chafee
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
8
Alexa Chung
When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.
9
Adam Clymer
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
10
Rory Culkin
When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the corner for, like, half an hour until she saw in the reflection, me behind her, and she freaked out and started slapping me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STOOD»

Discover the use of stood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was ...
In October 2011, gunmen boarded Malala's school bus and shot her in the face, a bullet passing through her head and into her shoulder. Remarkably, Malala survived the shooting.
Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb, 2013
2
And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust
This is a graphic picture of the anguish, doubts, fears, and, finally, a rationale for the long night of the Holocaust, with an affirmation of ultimate survival of the Jewish people.
Isaac Jack Levy, 1999
3
The Week The World Stood Still: Inside The Secret Cuban ...
" . . . The Week The World Stood Still is an impressive work of scholarship that is also highly recommended for non-specialist general readers with an interest in the history of the Cold War era."--The Midwest Book Review
Sheldon M. Stern, 2005
4
Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still
13): “And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. (...) So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.” The next verse underlines the ...
J. Anderson, Atle Naess, 2006
5
"Sufficient to Have Stood, Though Free to Fall": The ...
A parable is a narrative with a moral lesson; it teaches its lesson by using familiar topics in unexpected comparisons that draw readers into the text.
Amy Stewart Bizik, 2008
6
I Stood a Beggar Before God
The author shares this invocative story, inspired by missive power that bought reality and fulfillment in his submission to God. Overcoming variable confrontations challenging his innocence, causing rebellion of sexual confusion and abuse.
Victor James, 2007
7
The Day the Streets Stood Still
Bailey thought she had left a deadly robbery-gone-wrong in her past, but when her new man looks into, and is facinated by her history, she realizes that misfortune has caught up with her.
JaQuavis Coleman, 2013
8
And Heaven Stood Silent...
The fate of mankind was about to be sealed as the left side of the scale started to reach its lowest extreme.In who's favor would the scales of justice tip?Discover who really holds the key to the fate of mankind in this powerful, touching ...
Christopher C. Billiot, 2011
9
The Little Chapel That Stood
The story of terror overcome by courage and bravery that teaches us no one is too small to make a difference.
Arline B. Curtiss, 2005
10
Where Time Stood Still
A few of these stories involve the stereotypical hillbilly, such as shotgun weddings and illegal moonshining.
Watkins Leigh Ribble, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STOOD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stood is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Cronulla Sharks players Andrew and David Fifita stood down from …
Cronulla have stood down Andrew and David Fifita until an investigation is completed into allegations they abused the referee as the twins prepare to challenge ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
Jews stood up to the US government 40 years ago, and should …
These days, like many Israelis and American Jews, I find myself in a precarious and painful situation. Those of us who believe that the nuclear agreement just ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
3
When the US Stood With My Countrymen
Seventy-five years have passed since the United States declared that it would not recognize the annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
4
The Man Who Stood Up to Khamenei
The most explosive issue in Tehran isn't the nuclear agreement ⎯ it's the continued imprisonment of the leaders of the Green Movement. And one unlikely ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
5
Ohio girl Zea stood-up to an anti-gay preacher by silently holding up …
The young girl named Zea stood up to a preacher who was ranting against gay rights at a community festival in Ohio just one day after the Supreme Court ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
6
Inside Warwickshire house where time has stood still
A Warwickshire house, where time has stood still for 70 years is to be sold and its contents auctioned. Grange Farm at Ryton-on-Dunsmore had been home to ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
7
5 Adages That Have Stood the Test of Time
I recently stumbled upon the adage, “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it.” Although I've heard it at least a hundred times, ... «Entrepreneur, Jun 15»
8
Top cops stood aside over murder investigation fiasco
Five detectives, including senior Major Crime investigators, have been stood aside from duty and another four officers face disciplinary action over the botched ... «WA today, May 15»
9
Officer who stood on hood of car and shot, killed unarmed occupants …
CLEVELAND — A Cleveland police officer who stood on a car and shot the vehicle's two unarmed occupants after colleagues already riddled the car with bullets ... «myfox8.com, May 15»
10
Victorian Minister Adem Somyurek stood down over alleged bullying …
A Victorian Government Minister has been stood down by Premier Daniel Andrews over allegations of bullying behaviour. Mr Andrews called a snap press ... «ABC Online, May 15»
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