Word.ws English Dictionary

dead stand

dead stand noun: a standstill.

Noun

dead stand (plural dead stands)

  1. A standstill.
    • Then followed a signal check to walking pace at Holloway and finally a dead stand of 5¾ min. while we stolidly contemplated the beauties of Belle Isle (not quite the equal of those of the Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore, on which I was destined to set eyes a few weeks later).1960 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 623
  2. A stand of trees that have died.

Forms of dead stand

pluraldead stands

Questions about dead stand

What does dead stand mean?
Dead stand means a standstill.
What part of speech is dead stand?
Dead stand is a noun.
What is the plural of dead stand?
The plural of dead stand is dead stands.

Words near dead stand in the dictionary

  1. dead soldiers
  2. dead space
  3. dead spaces
  4. dead spot
  5. dead spots
  6. dead stand
  7. dead stands
  8. dead stick
  9. dead sticked
  10. dead sticking
  11. dead sticks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dead stand (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dead stand.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dead_stand. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.