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6-letter words (2 found)

DONUTS,STOUND,

5-letter words (15 found)

DONUT,DOUTS,DUNTS,NODUS,NUTSO,SNOUT,SOUND,STOND,STOUN,TONUS,TOUNS,TUNDS,UDONS,UNDOS,UNSOD,

4-letter words (32 found)

DONS,DOST,DOTS,DOUN,DOUT,DUNS,DUNT,DUOS,DUST,NODS,NOUS,NOUT,NUTS,ONST,ONUS,OUDS,OUST,OUTS,SNOD,SNOT,SOUT,STUD,STUN,TODS,TONS,TOUN,TUND,TUNS,UDON,UDOS,UNDO,UNTO,

3-letter words (29 found)

DON,DOS,DOT,DSO,DUN,DUO,NOD,NOS,NOT,NUS,NUT,ODS,ONS,OUD,OUS,OUT,SOD,SON,SOT,SOU,SUD,SUN,TOD,TON,TUN,UDO,UDS,UNS,UTS,

2-letter words (13 found)

DO,NO,NU,OD,ON,OS,OU,SO,ST,TO,UN,US,UT,

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Definitions and meaning of stound

stound

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /staʊnd/, /stuːnd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /staʊnd/, /stund/
  • Rhymes: -aʊnd, -uːnd

Etymology 1

From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.

Alternative forms

  • stund, stoind, stoond, stoon, stoun, stuind (Scotland)

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

  1. (chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour.
    • 1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):
      What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
  2. (obsolete) A tide, season.
  3. (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
  4. (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
    Listen to me a little stound.
  5. A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
  6. (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
  7. A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
  8. A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
    • 1893, The Homoeopathic World:
      Several stounds of pain in the cleft between great and second toe (anterior tibial nerve). I forget which side, but I think it was the right. Slight pains in left temple, > pressure. Pain in upper part of right eyeball.
  9. Astonishment; amazement.
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Verb

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stounding, simple past and past participle stounded)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
  2. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
  3. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stounden, stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), from Old English *stundian, from Proto-West Germanic *stundōn, from Proto-Germanic *stundōną. Cognate with German stunden (“to defer payment, give time to pay”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). More at stand.

Verb

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stounding, simple past and past participle stounded)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand still; stop.
  2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To stop to listen; pause.

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

  1. (UK dialectal) A stand; a stop.

Etymology 3

From Middle English stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from Old English stond (“a stand”). Compare stand.

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

  1. A receptacle for holding small beer.

Anagrams

  • Dutson, donuts, stunod

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • stounde, stounte, stowunde, stund, stunde, stunt, stonde, stont, stonte, stunden

Etymology

From Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”).

Noun

stound

  1. A while: a short span of time.
  2. Time, especially the proper time for doing something:
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3992-3994:
    1. A moment, a chance, an opportunity.
    2. A season of the year.
    3. A canonical hour: one of the 3-hour divisions of the day, (Christianity) its divine office.
    4. An hour: one of the 24 divisions of the day.

Descendants

  • English: stound
  • Scots: stound

Adverb

stound

  1. A while: for a short span of time.

References

  • "stǒund(e" in the Middle English Dictionary

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English stound (“a moment”), from Old English stund, Old Norse stund.

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

  1. A period of time, a moment.
  2. (obsolete) A sudden pain, a pang.
  3. (Middle Scots, obsolete) A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon).
  4. (obsolete) A verbal attack, invective.

Verb

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stoundin, simple past stoundit, past participle stoundit)

  1. (transitive) To inflict pain on, to wound.
  2. (intransitive) To hurt, to be painful.

References

  • stound n. in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh.
  • stound v.1 in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh.

Etymology 2

From Middle English astound, from astoned, past participle of the verb astone (“to astonish”).

Verb

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stoundin, simple past stoundit, past participle stoundit)

  1. To astound, to stupefy, to terrify

References

  • stound v.2 in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh.

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