stamp
/stæmp/
stamp noun: an act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
Noun
stamp (plural stamps)
- An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
- The horse gave two quick stamps and rose up on its hind legs.
- Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and the Boy ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
- An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.
- My passport has quite a collection of stamps.
- A device for imprinting designs.
- She loved to make designs with her collection of stamps.
- Close to the register is a box of stamps adorned with logos of local business, including one for B cup cafe around the block.2015 March 6, Jana Kasperkevic, “Stamp and ink shop lives on in New York City's East Village”, in The Guardian
- A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
- I need one first-class stamp to send this letter.
- Now that commerce is done electronically, tax stamps are no longer issued here.
- A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
- These stamps have a Christmas theme.
- A tattoo.
- A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
- A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
- Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
- the stamp of criminality
- It is trial and examination must give it price, and not any antique fashion; and though it be not yet current by the public stamp, yet it may, for all that, be as old as nature, and is certainly not the less genuine.1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
Verb
stamp (third-person singular simple present stamps, present participle stamping, simple past and past participle stamped)
- To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- The toddler screamed and stamped, but still got no candy.
- To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- The crowd cheered and stamped their feet in appreciation.
- The native peoples with vocal cords located in the respiratory organs initiate simple communication with slimes by stamping their feet.2020, Salt Seno, translated by Amanda Haley, Heterogenia Linguistico: An Introduction to Interspecies Linguistics, page 40
- To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
- Vnder my feet I stampe thy Cardinalls Hat:1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
- This machine stamps the metal cover with a design.
- This machine stamps the design into the metal cover.
- To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
- The immigration officer stamped my passport.
- To apply postage stamps to.
- I forgot to stamp this letter.
- To mark; to impress.
- , Book IV, Chapter X
God […] has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being. - England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and...2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
- , Book IV, Chapter X
Proper noun capitalized: Stamp
Stamp (plural Stamps)
- A surname.
stamp meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
stamp in Hindi
- indentation or imprint made by stamping
- मुहर muhar, मोहर mohar
- device for stamping designs
- मुहर muhar, मोहर mohar
- any small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other — see also postage stamp
- स्टाम्प sṭāmp, टिकट ṭikaṭ
- to step quickly and heavily
- पटकना paṭaknā
stamp in Tamil
- பொளியிடு, அஞ்சல் தலை, தபால்தலை, முத்திரை, முத்திரையிடு
stamp in Marathi
- indentation or imprint made by stamping
- शिक्का śikkā
stamp in Urdu
- indentation or imprint made by stamping
- مُہَر muhar
- device for stamping designs
- مُہَر muhar
- any small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other — see also postage stamp
- ٹِکَٹ ṭikaṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- stamp in Bengali
- মোহর mōhor
- stamp in Telugu
- ముద్ర mudra, ముద్రవేయు mudravēyu
- stamp in Malayalam
- ചാപ്പ cāppa, മുദ്ര mudra
- stamp in Kannada
- ಬೆಟ್ಟುಗೆ, ಅಂಚೆಚೀಟಿ, ರಬ್ಬರು ಮೊಹರು, ಲೋಹದ ಮೊಹರು
- stamp in Punjabi
- ਮੋਹਰ mohar, ٹھپنا ṭhappṇā, ਛਾਪਣਾ chāpṇā
- stamp in Gujarati
- છાપ chāp
- stamp in Odia
- ଛାପିବା chāpibā
- stamp in Sanskrit
- अङ्कयति aṅkáyati, सञ्चक sañcaka, पिट्टयति piṭṭayati
- stamp in Nepali
- स्ट्याम्प
- stamp in Pashto
- مهر mohr
- stamp in Arabic
- خَتْم ḵatm, طَابَع ṭābaʕ
- stamp in Malay
- cop, setem
- stamp in Indonesian
- cap, stempel
- stamp in Thai
- การเหยียบ gaan-yìiap, การย่ำ gaan-yâm, การกระทืบ gaan-grà-tʉ̂ʉp, ลัญจกร lan-jà-gɔɔn
- stamp in Vietnamese
- con dấu, ấn, triện
- stamp in Myanmar
- တံဆိပ် tamhcip
Examples of stamp in a sentence
- Now, the horses at that period were all of a sturdy stamp[…]1902 February 28, “The Horse in South Africa”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 26, page 828:
- England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
Synonyms of stamp
Forms of stamp
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stamps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stamps |
| present participle | stamping |
| past participle | stamped |
| past | stamped |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | stampest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | stampedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | stampeth |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Stamps |
Origin of stamp
From Middle English stampen (“to pound, crush”), from assumed Old English *stampian, variant of Old English stempan (“to crush, pound, pound in mortar, stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, *stampijan, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną, *stampijaną (“to trample, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *stemb- (“to trample down”). Cognate with Dutch stampen (“to stamp, pitch”), German stampfen (“to stamp”), Danish stampe (“to stamp”), Swedish stampa (“to stomp”), Occitan estampar, Polish stąpać (“to step, treat”). See also stomp, step. Marks indicating that postage had been paid were originally made by stamping the item to be mailed; when affixed pieces of paper were introduced for this purpose, the term “stamp” was transferred to cover this new form.
* As an English surname, variant of Stamps, habitational surname of Norman origin from Estampes, earlier name of Étampes. * As a German surname, from Middle Low German stampen (“to crush, pestle”), from Old Saxon *stampōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną.
Words formed from stamp
- tramp stamp
- artistamp
- blind stamp
- book stamp
- brick stamp
- brickstamp
- charity stamp
- cinderella stamp
- clinical stamp
- datestamp
- duck stamp
- enstamp
- fiscal stamp
- food stamp
- forever stamp
- green stamp
- handstamp
- headstamp
- health stamp
- hot stamp
- leave one's stamp
- letter-stamp
- meter stamp
- microstamp
- mushroom stamp
- postage due stamp
- postage-due stamp
- poster stamp
- put one's stamp
- railway stamp
- ration stamp
- ribbon stamp
- rubber stamp
- rubber-stamp
- savings stamp
- SmartStamp
- stamp act
- stamp album
- stamp and go
- stamp art
- stamp battery
- stamp collecting
- stamp collection
- stamp collector
- stamp coupling
- stampery
- stamp hinge
- stampic
- stampless
- stamp mill
- stamp note
- stampomania
- stamp pad
- stamp tax
- telegraph stamp
- time stamp
- timestamp
- time-stamp
- trading stamp
- Zeppelin stamp
Phrases with stamp
- tax stamp
- back stamp
- stamp acts
- stamp pads
- stamp mills
- stamp notes
- stamp taxes
- stamp albums
- stamp duties
- stamp hinges
- revenue stamp
- stamp batteries
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Words that rhyme with stamp
Questions about stamp
- What does stamp mean?
- Stamp means an act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
- What is stamp in Hindi?
- Stamp in Hindi is मुहर (muhar), मोहर (mohar), स्टाम्प (sṭāmp). See Stamp meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use stamp in a sentence?
- Now, the horses at that period were all of a sturdy stamp[…]
- What part of speech is stamp?
- Stamp can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce stamp?
- Stamp is pronounced /stæmp/.
- What is the plural of stamp?
- The plural of stamp is stamps.
Words near stamp in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stamp (page history and authors); Stamp (page history and authors); stamp (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মোহর (Bengali) (page history and authors); ചാപ്പ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); stamp (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ٹھپنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); છાપ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଛାପିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); अङ्कयति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); stamp (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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