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st

st interjection: expressing a sudden desire for silence. Also the alternative form of st. and St.

Interjection

  1. Expressing a sudden desire for silence.

Noun (1) capitalized: ST

ST (countable and uncountable, plural STs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of short ton(s).
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of storyteller, especially in the context of running certain tabletop role-playing games.
  3. (abbreviation, uncountable) Abbreviation of steam.
  4. (abbreviation, euphemistic, initialism) Initialism of sanitary towel.
  5. An ST segment.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of short time.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of source text.
    • [S]tudents in their first year believe that source text and target text should be identical in content, that the TT should be a reproduction of the ST in another language, and that the TT should read well and be understandable.2004, Christina Schäffner, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 119
    Antonyms:
    TT
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of specialty training

Proper noun capitalized: ST

ST

  1. Atari ST.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Star Trek.
    • As references in various articles on my Web site will demonstrate, I do spend time reading publications promoting non-Christian viewpoints. But still ST is supposed to be entertaining. And I do know of many Christians who have long since stopped watching ST due to the unchristian values sometimes...1998, Reepicheep, “Good Bye Star Trek Voyager?”, in alt.christnet (Usenet)
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Standard Theory.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Central Sulawesi: a province of Indonesia.

Verb capitalized: ST

ST (third-person singular simple present STs, present participle STing, simple past and past participle STed)

  1. To act as a game master (GM) in a tabletop role-playing game, especially any of the games produced by White Wolf.

Noun (2) capitalized: St

St (plural SS or Sts)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Saint.
    • At Rome, the papal basilicas of St Peter and St Paul both lay outside the city walls: at Canterbury, Augustine founded an extramural burial church, dedicated to Sts Peter and Paul together.2005, Julia M[ary] H[oward] Smith, “Rome and the Peoples of Europe”, in Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History 500–1000, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section “Ideologies”, chapter section...

Noun (3) capitalized: St

St

  1. (abbreviation, nonstandard) Abbreviation of Saturday.

Also used as

st is also the alternative form of st. and St.

st is also the abbreviation of state.

st is also the abbreviation of stone.

st is also the abbreviation of store.

st is also the abbreviation of stitch.

st meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

st in Hindi

सेंट

st in Tamil

செயின்ட்

st in Marathi

सेंट

st in Urdu

ایس ٹی
More languagesFewer languages
st in Bengali
সেন্ট
st in Telugu
సెయింట్
st in Malayalam
സെൻ്റ്, സെന്റ്
st in Kannada
ಸೇಂಟ್
st in Punjabi
ਐੱਸ. ਟੀ
st in Gujarati
સેન્ટ
st in Odia
ଷ୍ଟ
st in Nepali
सेन्ट, एसटी

Examples of st in a sentence

  • Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 20th to the 21st.
  • Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 21st to the 20th.
  • They all went out to whoop it up on his 21st birthday.

All 40 example sentences with st

Antonyms of st

Forms of st

Interjection
alternative formsst
Noun
pluralsts
pluralSTs
pluralSS
pluralSts
alternative formS
alternative formS.
alternative formSt.
Verb
third-person singular presentSTs
present participleSTing
past participleSTed
pastSTed

Origin of st

Imitative. Compare hist.

Abbreviations.

Words formed from st

Phrases with st

160 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about st

What does st mean?
St means expressing a sudden desire for silence.
What is st in Hindi?
St in Hindi is सेंट. See St meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is st?
St can be an interjection, a noun, a proper noun or a verb.

Words near st in the dictionary

  1. Ssu-p'ing
  2. Ssupingkai
  3. SSW
  4. SSZ
  5. Ssŭ-ch'uan
  6. st
  7. St Abbs
  8. St Agnes
  9. St Albans
  10. St Albans Park
  11. St And

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: st (page history and authors); ST (page history and authors); St (page history and authors); st (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); st (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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