STANDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stander mean? 

• STANDER (noun)
  The noun STANDER has 1 sense:

1. an organism (person or animal) that stands

  Familiarity information: STANDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STANDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organism (person or animal) that stands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

a crowd of sitters and standers

Hypernyms ("stander" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stander"):

standee (someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train))

Antonym:

sitter (an organism (person or animal) that sits)

Derivation:

stand (be standing; be upright)

 Context examples 

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There he was, among the standers-by, where he ought not to be; he ought to be dancing,—not classing himself with the husbands, and fathers, and whist-players, who were pretending to feel an interest in the dance till their rubbers were made up,—so young as he looked!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)