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standard

Syllables: stan·dardUK/ˈstændəd//ˈstændɚd/

standard adjective: falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc. Also the ellipsis of standard poodle.

standard: falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc
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Adjective

standard (comparative more standard, superlative most standard)

  1. (comparative, standard) Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
  2. (comparative, standard) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
    • There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;—for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary […].1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray
  3. (comparative, standard) Having recognized excellence or authority.
    • standard works in history; standard authors
  4. (comparative, standard) Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
  5. (comparative, not comparable, standard) Having a manual transmission.
    Antonyms:
    automatic
  6. (comparative, standard) As normally supplied (not optional or modified by any extra requests).
    • This is the standard model, but we offer a variety of customization options.
    • Although marketed by Daimler as standard equipment, Triton requested that Daimler deliver the 2022 truck-tractor without collision avoidance technology. As a result, Triton received a cost discount on its truck order, which included this truck. Triton told the NTSB that the owner and several of the...2024, NTSB, Highway Investigation Report, HIR-24-05
    Synonyms:
    normal, basic, ordinary
    Antonyms:
    deluxe, modified
  7. (comparative, standard) Conforming to the standard variety.

Noun

standard (plural standards)

  1. A level of quality or attainment.
    • The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    • The station consisted of two tents and a 10-by-15-foot wooden laboratory shack—luxurious accommodations by Arctic standards.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 594
    Synonyms:
    benchmark
  2. Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
    • the court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
    • A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    yardstick
  3. A musical work of established popularity.
    • I was disappointed when the concert ended with a "Tribute to Irving Berlin" that included "God Bless America" and two John Philip Sousa numbers, the "Washington Post" and "Stars and Stripes Forever." […] I think it's wrong, wrong, wrong for a gay band to play music that celebrates the martial life....1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6
  4. A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
    • The Biden administration finalized the first national standard to limit dangerous “forever chemicals” found in nearly half of the drinking water in the United States.2024 April 10, Jen Christiensen, “Biden administration sets first national standard to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water”, in CNN
    • In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.2024 October 9, Hadas Gold, Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, “Shari Redstone says CBS leaders made ‘bad mistake’ with handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates interview fallout”, in CNN
  5. The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
    • By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
  6. standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language.
  7. A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
  8. (India) Grade level in primary or secondary education.
    • I am in fifth standard.
    • I finished my twelfth standard with less than stellar marks.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 179
  9. An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
    • It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  10. The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
    • His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield...
  11. One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
  12. Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
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  1. A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
  2. A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
    • In the more temperate parts of France [gardens are] part laid out for Flowers, others for Fruits, ſome Standards, ſome againſt Walls or Paliſades, [...]1685, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], published 1690, →OCLC, page 111
    • It [Loranthus europaeus] grows chiefly on the branches of standards over coppice.1907, William Schlich, Schlich's Manual of Forestry, page 415
  3. The sheth of a plough.
  4. (Northern England, Scotland) A cairn or tumulus.
    1. (Northern England, Scotland) A hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit.
  5. A manual transmission vehicle.
  6. The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
  7. An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
  8. A large drinking cup.
    • Frolic, my lords; let all the standards walk, / Ply it till every man hath ta’en his load.c. 1590, Thomas Lodge, Robert Greene, “A Looking Glass for London”, in The Complete Plays of Robert Greene, London: Ernest Ben Limited, published 1909
  9. (historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.
    • The scales generally showed on the face of the garment or defence, and we find body armour, gorgets, habergeons, standards or neck defences, and even the camailt of this class of armour.1903, The Archaeological Journal, page 104
    • Goldsmiths also made gold and silver mail for the decorations of helmets and gorgets. The will of Duke Philip the Good shows that he owned a mail standard (collar) made of solid gold.1992, Matthias Pfaffenbichler, British Museum, Armourers
    Synonyms:
    pisane
  10. A measure for timber.
    • To clear the fallen timber quickly, arrangements were made between British Railways and the Home Timber Merchant's Association of Scotland for the purchase of timber in the form of sleepers, crossing timbers, and wagon timbers. These arrangements have now terminated, and since the storm a total of...1955 April, “Wind-Blown Timber for B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 271

Interjection

standard

  1. (UK, slang) An expression of agreement.

Proper noun capitalized: Standard

Standard

  1. Denoting the name of a universal language in various works.
    • "I felt that I had to come," she said, as if she could tell from my face that I still wasn't getting it. She spoke Standard, with no real accent. She was dressed in pragmatic, sexless human clothes; if we hadn't been face-to-face, she could have passed for a human.1996, Joan D. Vinge, Dreamfall, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 150
    Synonyms:
    Common

Also used as

standard is also the ellipsis of standard poodle.

standard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

standard in Hindi

falling within an accepted range
मानक mānak
conforming to the standard variety
मानक mānak
level of quality
मानक mānak
something used as a measure
मानक mānak, मापदंड māpdaṇḍ, कसौटी kasauṭī

standard in Tamil

தரநிலை, தரநிலைஃ, தரநிலையான

standard in Marathi

मानक

standard in Urdu

level of quality
مِعْیار mi'yār
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standard in Bengali
স্ট্যান্ডার্ড, স্ট্যাণ্ডার্ড
standard in Telugu
ప్రమాణిక pramāṇika, ప్రమాణం pramāṇaṁ
standard in Malayalam
സ്റ്റാൻഡേർഡ്, നിലവാരം
standard in Kannada
ಸ್ಟ್ಯಾಂಡರ್ಡ್, ಪ್ರಮಾಣಕ
standard in Punjabi
ਸਟੈਂਡਰਡ
standard in Gujarati
પ્રમાણભૂત, ધોરણ, માનક
standard in Odia
ମାନକ, ଷ୍ଟାଣ୍ଡାର୍ଡ
standard in Sanskrit
न्याय nyāya
standard in Nepali
मानक
standard in Tagalog
tung-ol
standard in Arabic
مِعْيَارِيّ miʕyāriyy, مِعْيَار miʕyār, مُسْتَوَى mustawā, لِوَاء liwāʔ
standard in Malay
piawai, standard, piawaian
standard in Indonesian
standar, baku, ragam baku, panji
standard in Persian
متعارف mota'âref, درفش drafš, لوا lavâ
standard in Thai
มาตรฐาน mâat-dtrà-tǎan
standard in Vietnamese
chuẩn, trình độ, tiêu chuẩn

Examples of standard in a sentence

  • Although marketed by Daimler as standard equipment, Triton requested that Daimler deliver the 2022 truck-tractor without collision avoidance technology.2024, NTSB, Highway Investigation Report, HIR-24-05:
  • There's plenty of other rousing music around, so how about dumping some of those armed forces standards.1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6:
  • The throat and upper chest was protected by the gorget plate, mail standard or a metal wrapper.2008, Josephine Wilkinson, Richard III: The Young King to be, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
  • Mail was also used to provide skirts substituting for tassets, for collars called "standards" substituting for gorgets, as well as for coats (long) and shirts (short).2016, Ivor Noel Hume, Audrey Noel Hume, The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog...

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Synonyms of standard

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Antonyms

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Forms of standard

Adjective
superlativemost standard
Noun
pluralstandards

Plural of standard: standards

Origin of standard

From Middle English standard, from Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Frankish *standahard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”), equivalent to stand + -ard. An alternative etymology derives the second element from Frankish *oʀd (“point, spot, place”) (compare Old French ordé (“pointed”), Old English ord (“point, source, vanguard”), German Standort (“location, place, site, position, base”, literally “standing-point”)). Merged with Middle English standar, stander, standere (“flag, banner”, literally “stander”), equivalent to stand + -er. More at stand, hard, ord. As a hill-naming term possibly a calque from Cumbric; equivalent to Welsh lluman (“standard”), arising with confusion with the hill-naming element llumon (“chimney”).

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Phrases with standard

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Questions about standard

What does standard mean?
Standard means falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
What is standard in Hindi?
Standard in Hindi is मानक (mānak), मापदंड (māpdaṇḍ), कसौटी (kasauṭī). See Standard meaning in Hindi.
How do you use standard in a sentence?
Although marketed by Daimler as standard equipment, Triton requested that Daimler deliver the 2022 truck-tractor without collision avoidance technology.
What part of speech is standard?
Standard can be an adjective, a noun, an interjection or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce standard?
Standard is pronounced /ˈstændəd/ (UK).

Words near standard in the dictionary

  1. standability
  2. standage
  3. standages
  4. standalone
  5. standalones
  6. standard
  7. Standard American
  8. Standard American English
  9. Standard Aramaic
  10. Standard Bengali
  11. standard candle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: standard (page history and authors); Standard (page history and authors); standard (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standard (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standard (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standard (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standard (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standard (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standard (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standard (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standard (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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