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stills

stills is the plural of still.

stills is the third-person singular simple present indicative of still.

Meaning of still

Noun (1)

still (plural stills)

  1. A period of calm or silence.
    • the still of the night
  2. A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
    1. A single frame from a film.
      • One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching...1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87
  3. (slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.
    Synonyms:
    Benny, Falklander, Kelper

Noun (2)

still (plural stills)

  1. A device for distilling liquids.
  2. (catering) A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.

See all 26 meanings of still

Phrases with stills

Questions about stills

What is stills the plural of?
Stills is the plural of still.

Words near stills in the dictionary

  1. stillness
  2. stillnesses
  3. Stillorgan
  4. stillroom
  5. stillrooms
  6. stills
  7. stillsome
  8. Stillson
  9. Stillson wrench
  10. Stillson wrenches
  11. Stillsons

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