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standout

US/ˈstændaʊt/

standout adjective: exceptional; noteworthy.

Adjective

standout (not comparable)

  1. Exceptional; noteworthy.
    • The band played well, but the acrobats gave the standout performance.
    • Despite the quality of entries being high in this year's OPC category, she is a standout winner for all the judges.2021 January 27, Paul Stephen, “Inspiration to the next generation”, in RAIL, number 923, page 48
    Synonyms:
    outstanding

Noun

standout (plural standouts)

  1. An exceptional or noteworthy person or thing.
    • This building is one of the city's architectural standouts.
    • An all-around superlative athlete, he was also a standout in track and field […].2000, George B. Kirsch et al., “Chamberlain, Wilton”, in Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States, →ISBN, page 97
  2. The distance a self-retracting metal tape measure can be extended before collapsing under its own weight.
    • This tape measure has a standout of 14 feet.

standout meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

standout in Hindi

स्टैंडआउट

standout in Urdu

ممتاز

standout in Bengali

স্ট্যান্ডআউট

standout in Kannada

ಎದ್ದು ಕಾಣುವಂಥದ್ದು

Examples of standout in a sentence

  • Michael Jordan is one of many Tar Heel basketball standouts.
  • Hear cast, crew, and butt-chugger John Cena discuss how they handled this standout scene.
  • Cinema's standout bad guys didn't hanky-twist their lives away whimpering “Gee, am I doing something wrong?”

All 16 example sentences with standout

Synonyms of standout

Forms of standout

pluralstandouts

Origin of standout

Deverbal from stand out.

Words formed from standout

Questions about standout

What does standout mean?
Standout means exceptional; noteworthy.
What is standout in Hindi?
Standout in Hindi is स्टैंडआउट. See Standout meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is standout?
Standout can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce standout?
Standout is pronounced /ˈstændaʊt/ (US).

Words near standout in the dictionary

  1. standoffishly
  2. standoffishness
  3. standoffs
  4. standom
  5. Standon
  6. standout
  7. standoutish
  8. standouts
  9. standover
  10. standovers
  11. standpat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: standout (page history and authors); standout (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standout (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); standout (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); standout (Kannada, 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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