steen
/stiːn/
steen is the alternative form of stean.
Meaning of stean
Noun (1)
stean (plural steans)
Noun (2)
stean (plural steans)
Noun (3)
stean (plural steans)
- A stone.
- A large box of stones used for pressing cheese; a cheese-press.
Proper noun capitalized: Steen
Steen (plural Steens)
Noun capitalized: Steen
Steen (countable and uncountable, plural Steens)
- Chenin blanc, a variety of white wine.
Synonyms of steen
Forms of steen
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | steens |
| alternative form | stean |
| plural | Steens |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | steens |
| present participle | steening |
| past participle | steened |
| past | steened |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Steens |
Origin of steen
* As a general Germanic surname, from Dutch Steen, West Flemish van der steen, Danish Steen, Swedish Steen, Norwegian Steen. Doublet of Stone and Stein. Compare Staines. * As a Scottish surname, shortened from Stephen. * As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, shortened from mac Stiamhna (“son of Stephen”), usually Anglicized as McStephen, McStein.
Early Afrikaans, elliptically from steendruiven (“stone grapes”), from steen (“stone”) + druiven (“grapes”), plural of druif.
Words formed from steen
Words that rhyme with steen
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- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about steen
- What does steen mean?
- Steen means a surname from Germanic, equivalent to English Stone, equivalent of Peter or Peters (Petros - stone, rock).
- What is steen the alternative form of?
- Steen is the alternative form of stean.
- What part of speech is steen?
- Steen can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce steen?
- Steen is pronounced /stiːn/.
Words near steen in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: steen (page history and authors); Steen (page history and authors); stean (page history and authors). 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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