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stith

/stɪθ/

stith noun: an anvil; a stithy.

Noun

stith (plural stiths)

  1. (obsolete) An anvil; a stithy.
    • strike on the stith while the iron was hot1584, Robert Greene, the Card of Fancy

Adjective

stith (comparative more stith, superlative most stith)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) strong; stiff; rigid

Proper noun capitalized: Stith

Stith

  1. A surname.

Forms of stith

Noun
pluralstiths
Adjective
comparativemore stith
superlativemost stith

Origin of stith

From Middle English stith, from Old Norse steði. Compare stithy.

From Middle English stith (“steady, strong, cruel”), from Old English stīþ (“hard, cruel”), from Proto-West Germanic *stinþ, from Proto-Germanic *stinþaz. Compare also Old Frisian stīth, Middle Low German stīde, Middle Dutch stīde, Old Norse stinnr, Danish stind, Swedish stinn.

English surname of uncertain origin. Compare the obscure adjective stith (“hard, strong”), which could be related to stithy (“anvil”).

Questions about stith

What does stith mean?
Stith means an anvil; a stithy.
What part of speech is stith?
Stith can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce stith?
Stith is pronounced /stɪθ/.
What is the plural of stith?
The plural of stith is stiths.

Words near stith in the dictionary

  1. Stitely
  2. Stitelys
  3. Stites
  4. Stiteses
  5. Stitfall
  6. stith
  7. stithied
  8. stithies
  9. stiths
  10. stithy
  11. stithying

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