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forestand

forestand is the alternative form of forstand.

Meaning of forstand

Verb

forstand (third-person singular simple present forstands, present participle forstanding, simple past and past participle forstood)

  1. (transitive) To stand against; stand in front of so as to bar the way; block; oppose; withstand.
    • And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of...
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To understand; comprehend.
    • How can I forstand your Professors, when they dinna forstand themselves.1878, Samuel Smiles, Robert Dick: baker, of Thurso, geologist and botanist

Forms of forestand

third-person singular presentforestands
present participleforestanding
past participleforestood
pastforestood

Questions about forestand

What is forestand the alternative form of?
Forestand is the alternative form of forstand.

Words near forestand in the dictionary

  1. forestallments
  2. forestalls
  3. forestalment
  4. forestalments
  5. forestals
  6. forestand
  7. forestanding
  8. forestart
  9. forestarts
  10. Forestas
  11. forestate

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