stein
/staɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname originating as a patronymic from a Scots diminutive of Stephen.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein—coloring and all. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams."
- "A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head."
- "[…] those 50 grams of resin-soaked dope, which had been so potent that on the second day it had given him an anxiety attack so paralyzing that he had gone to the bathroom in a Tufts University commemorative ceramic stein to avoid leaving his bedroom,[…]"
- "Elisheva Baskin and Michael Stein are to be married Sunday evening at the Palisadium, an event space in Cliffside Park, N.J. Rabbi Yaacov Love is to officiate."
- "“Sunlight tends to make it a little better,” Stein said. “When people are more covered up in clothing like they are in the fall and the winter, some people’s psoriasis gets worse.”"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *steyh₂-, Stein