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standpatters

standpatters is the plural of standpatter.

Meaning of standpatter

Noun

standpatter (plural standpatters)

  1. One who is resistant to change.
    • Brownell, More and Babbitt—the names often formed a triad, and yet Brownell never held explicitly the general ideas worked out by More and Babbitt. The bond was sympathetic, but intellectually not clearly established. I once ventured to call Brownell a Victorian standpatter.1930, Gorham Munson, The Dilemma of the Liberated, page 62

Questions about standpatters

What is standpatters the plural of?
Standpatters is the plural of standpatter.

Words near standpatters in the dictionary

  1. standover
  2. standovers
  3. standpat
  4. standpatism
  5. standpatter
  6. standpatters
  7. standpattism
  8. standpipe
  9. standpipes
  10. standpoint
  11. standpoint epistemology

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