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stamina

Syllables: stam·i·naUK/ˈstæmɪnə//ˈstæmənə/

stamina noun: the energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc. Also the plural of stamen.

Noun

stamina (usually uncountable, plural staminas)

  1. (usually) The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
    • He has a lot of stamina. I suppose that's why he can run for a long time.
    • In the first five minutes muscles which he had not been aware that he possessed had started to ache like neglected teeth. His respect for the toughness and durability of artists' models was now solid. How they acquired the stamina to go through this sort of thing all day and then bound off to...1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Indiscretions of Archie
  2. (obsolete, plural, plural-only, usually) The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.

Also used as

stamina is also the plural of stamen.

stamina meaning in Bengali, Assamese, Nepali and Arabic

stamina in Bengali

power of sustained exertion
সহ্যশক্তি śojjhośokti

stamina in Assamese

power of sustained exertion
দম dom

stamina in Nepali

स्ट्यामिना

stamina in Arabic

power of sustained exertion
تَحَمُّل taḥammul, قُوَّةُ تَحَمُّل quwwatu taḥammul, جَلَد jalad
More languagesFewer languages
stamina in Persian
بنیه boniye

Examples of stamina in a sentence

  • How they acquired the stamina to go through this sort of thing all day and then bound off to Bohemian revels at night was more than he could understand.1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Indiscretions of Archie:
  • But I would say that Ukrainians gave an excellent example that there is stamina amongst people when difficulties come.2022 September 25, 4:49 from the start, in 'He's all in': Finland's president predicts Putin's next move, spoken by Sauli Niinistö, CNN...

All 18 example sentences with stamina

Forms of stamina

pluralstaminas

Origin of stamina

From Latin stāmina, plural of stāmen.

Words that rhyme with stamina

Questions about stamina

What does stamina mean?
Stamina means the energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
What is stamina in Bengali?
Stamina in Bengali is সহ্যশক্তি (śojjhośokti). See Stamina meaning in Bengali.
How do you use stamina in a sentence?
How they acquired the stamina to go through this sort of thing all day and then bound off to Bohemian revels at night was more than he could understand.
What part of speech is stamina?
Stamina is a noun.
How do you pronounce stamina?
Stamina is pronounced /ˈstæmɪnə/ (UK).
What is the plural of stamina?
The plural of stamina is staminas.

Words near stamina in the dictionary

  1. Stamford Hill
  2. Stamfordham
  3. stamfort
  4. stamforts
  5. stamin
  6. stamina
  7. staminal
  8. staminality
  9. staminas
  10. staminate
  11. staminated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stamina (page history and authors); stamina (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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