Usually means: Remained upright on one's feet.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. stood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stood: Merriam-Webster
  3. stood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stood: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stood: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stood, stood: Wordnik
  8. stood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stood: Wiktionary
  10. stood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stood: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stood: Dictionary.com
  14. stood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Stood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. stood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Stood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. stood: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. stood: FreeDictionary.org
  20. stood: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. stood: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stood: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. stood: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stood: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stood: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stood: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stoo'd, stood: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To position or be positioned physically:
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.
verb:  (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
verb:  (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
verb:  (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
verb:  (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
verb:  (intransitive, of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.
verb:  To position or be positioned mentally:
verb:  (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To tolerate.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
verb:  To position or be positioned socially:
verb:  (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
verb:  (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
verb:  (intransitive, British) To be a candidate (in an election).
verb:  (intransitive) To remain valid.
verb:  (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
verb:  (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
verb:  (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
verb:  (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
verb:  (intransitive) To appear in court.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
verb:  (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
noun:  The act of standing.
noun:  A defensive position or effort.
noun:  A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
noun:  A period of performance in a given location or venue.
noun:  A device to hold something upright or aloft.
noun:  The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
noun:  (historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
noun:  A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
noun:  (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
noun:  A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
noun:  A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
noun:  A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
noun:  (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
noun:  (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
noun:  (cricket) A partnership.
noun:  (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
noun:  (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
noun:  (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
noun:  A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
noun:  A location or position where one may stand.
noun:  (advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
noun:  (US, Scotland, dated) A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.
noun:  (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
noun:  (US, historical) Short for tavern stand (“a roadside inn”). [(US, historical) A roadside inn.]
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