stound
/staʊnd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound"
- "He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound."
- "Listen to me a little stound."
- "And in that same stound / All suddenly she swapt adown to ground."
- "No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage"
- "ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...]."
Etymology
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 Scots stound (“while, period of time, moment, sudden pain, pang, stroke, blow”), dated Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), Low German Stund (“hour”), 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /staʊnd/
- British English: /staʊnd/
Usage
- Obsolete
- Archaic
- Intransitive verb
- British usage
Inflected Forms
stounds (plural)
stund (alternative, Scotland)
stoind (alternative, Scotland)
stoond (alternative, Scotland)
stoon (alternative, Scotland)
stoun (alternative, Scotland)
stuind (alternative, Scotland)
stounds (present, singular)
stounding (participle, present)
stounded (participle, past)
stounded (past)