steve

/stiːv/

steve verb: to pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. Also the alternative form of STEVE.

Verb

steve (third-person singular simple present steves, present participle steving, simple past and past participle steved)

To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.

Proper noun capitalized: Steve

Steve (plural Steves)

A diminutive of the male given name Steven and Stephen; also used as a formal male given name.
- His first name was probably Steve or Ed. No, there were no more Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael.1989, Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, Random House, →ISBN, page 67
- White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been in contact via intermediaries with Curtis Yarvin, Politico Magazine reported this week.2017 February 10, Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2020
A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
- Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself Steve Wallace.
- "Don't call me Stephanie", Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen."1956, Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, published 1999, →ISBN, Book Three, Chapter 13

Noun (1) capitalized: Steve

Steve (plural Steves)

(alternative) Alternative form of STEVE (an atmospheric optical phenomenon, appearing as a ribbon of light in the sky)

Noun (2) capitalized: STEVE

STEVE (uncountable)

An aurora-like light found in southern Canada (consistently lower latitude, unlike the aurora borealis which is generally high latitude), composed of a glowing purple ribbon of light, with green spikes coming off obliquely parallel to each other, moving at about 6.5 km/s East to West. Presumably occurs in the southern hemisphere as well.
- Researchers first became aware of STEVE after members of a Facebook group called the Alberta Aurora Chasers (which refers to the province in western Canada) began posting photos of unusual purplish-greenish streaks oriented nearly vertically in the sky.2018 March 14, Sarah Lewin, “Meet ‘Steve,’ the Aurora-Like Mystery Scientists Are Beginning to Unravel”, in Space.com, retrieved 17 Mar 2018
- Although STEVE has been documented by amateur night sky watchers for decades, it is an exciting new upper atmospheric phenomenon for the scientific community.2018, "On the Origin of STEVE: Particle Precipitation or Ionospheric Skyglow?", Geophysical Research Letters, B. Gallardo‐Lacourt; J. Liang; Y. Nishimura; E. Donovan;, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078509

Also used as

steve is also the alternative form of STEVE.

steve meaning in Telugu, Odia and Nepali

steve in Telugu

స్టీవ్ చేయడం, స్టీవ్ చెయ్యడం

steve in Odia

ଷ୍ଟିଭିଂ, ଷ୍ଟିଭିଙ୍ଗ୍

steve in Nepali

स्टिव गर्न

Forms of steve

Verb
third-person singular present	steves
present participle	steving
past participle	steved
past	steved
Noun
plural	steves
plural	Steves
alternative form	steve
alternative form	Steve
Proper noun
plural	Steves

Origin of steve

Clipping of stevedore.

Decapitalization of STEVE.

Shortening of various names ultimately derived from Latin Stephanus m, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος m (Stéphanos) from στέφανος m (stéphanos, “crown, wreath”)

Words formed from steve

one-Steve limit
Stevenote
Stevie
Stevo
Stony
Stucky

Phrases with steve

Words that rhyme with steve

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Questions about steve

What does steve mean?: Steve means to pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.
What is steve in Telugu?: Steve in Telugu is స్టీవ్ చేయడం, స్టీవ్ చెయ్యడం. See Steve meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is steve?: Steve can be a verb, a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce steve?: Steve is pronounced /stiːv/.
What is the past tense of steve?: The past tense of steve is steved.

Words near steve in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: steve (page history and authors); Steve (page history and authors); STEVE (page history and authors); steve (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steve (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steve (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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