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counterstand

counterstand noun: a stand or stance against or in opposition.

Noun

counterstand (plural counterstands)

  1. (archaic) A stand or stance against or in opposition
    • Your knowledge has no counterstand against her; / She makes provision, judges, and pursues / Her governance, as theirs the other gods.1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 42, lines 85–87

Forms of counterstand

pluralcounterstands

Origin of counterstand

From counter- + stand.

Questions about counterstand

What does counterstand mean?
Counterstand means a stand or stance against or in opposition.
What part of speech is counterstand?
Counterstand is a noun.
What is the plural of counterstand?
The plural of counterstand is counterstands.

Words near counterstand in the dictionary

  1. counterstains
  2. counterstamp
  3. counterstamped
  4. counterstamping
  5. counterstamps
  6. counterstand
  7. counterstands
  8. counterstate
  9. counterstated
  10. counterstatement
  11. counterstatements

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