Word.ws English Dictionary

gainstanders

gainstanders is the plural of gainstander.

Meaning of gainstander

Noun

gainstander (plural gainstanders)

  1. (archaic) One who stands in opposition to (a belief, cause, etc.); an opposer
    • "[…] Formerly, it is said, they were leopards; but now they are become lions at all points, and must take precedence of beast, fish, or fowl, or woe worth the gainstander."1832, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman

Questions about gainstanders

What is gainstanders the plural of?
Gainstanders is the plural of gainstander.

Words near gainstanders in the dictionary

  1. gainspeaker
  2. gainspeaking
  3. gainst
  4. gainstand
  5. gainstander
  6. gainstanders
  7. gainstanding
  8. gainstands
  9. gainstay
  10. gainstayed
  11. gainstaying

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gainstanders (page history and authors); gainstander (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: “gainstanders.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gainstanders. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.