standen

/stˈændən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

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verb

Obsolete

name

A surname from Old English.

"Sir Thomas More And how long that image had standen in that old tabernacle that could no man tell, but there had in all the church none as they thought standen longer untouched."

Habitational surname, perhaps from Old English stān (“stone”) + dene (“valley”).

Standens (plural)

abandon brandon ugandan landon branden tandon landen escandon glandon

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How do you pronounce standen?

The recorded pronunciation is /stˈændən/.

What does standen mean?

past participle of stand

Where does standen come from?

It is traced to Old English.

How to pronounce standen

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