English Online Dictionary. What means standing? What does standing mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstændɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Etymology 1
From Middle English standynge, stondynge, standende, stondinde, standande, stondande, from Old English standende, stondende, from Proto-Germanic *standandz (“standing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), equivalent to stand + -ing.
Verb
standing
- present participle and gerund of stand
Adjective
standing (not comparable)
- Erect, not cut down.
- Performed from an erect position.
- standing ovation
- Remaining in force or status.
- standing committee
- Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
- standing water
- Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
- a standing colour
- Not movable; fixed.
- a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed
- the standing rigging of a ship
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “stagnant”): moving, working (committees)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English standyng, stonding, stondung, from Old English *standung, equivalent to stand + -ing.
Noun
standing (countable and uncountable, plural standings)
- (figurative) Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- Duration.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- (British) Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
- (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) The location on a street where a market trader habitually operates.
- Synonym: pitch
Derived terms
- class standing
- hard standing
- good standing
- social standing
Descendants
- → German: Standing
Translations
See also
- (legal): cause of action
References
- (market trader's pitch): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Cebuano
Etymology
From English standing.
Noun
standing
- in bato lata; an instance where the can is standing upright and, still in play, after being hit and pushed out of its ring
Faroese
Etymology
standa (“to stand”) + -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈstantɪŋk]
Noun
standing f (genitive singular standingar, uncountable)
- erection
Declension
Synonyms
- reðurstøða
French
Etymology
From English standing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɑ̃.diŋ/
Noun
standing m (plural standings)
- standing, status
- Level of quality or comfort, especially about real estate
- appartement de grand standing
Further reading
- “standing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English standing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈtandin/ [esˈt̪ãn̪.d̪ĩn]
- Rhymes: -andin
- IPA(key): /ˈstandin/ [ˈst̪ãn̪.d̪ĩn]
- Rhymes: -andin
- Syllabification: stan‧ding
Noun
standing m (plural standings)
- status, standing, class
- de alto standing ― high-class
Further reading
- “standing”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10