standart

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

   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

   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
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.

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