upstand
upstand verb: to stand up; arise; be erect; rise.
Verb
upstand (third-person singular simple present upstands, present participle upstanding, simple past and past participle upstood)
- To stand up; arise; be erect; rise.
- At once, upstood the monarch, and upstood / The wise Ulysses.1820, Homer, William Cowper, translated by into English blank verse, The Iliad of Homer: with notes
- The combination with a closet seat, of a flexible mat having sockets, plates secured upon the seat and having recesses, and a standard pivoted upon each plate and fold- able to lie in the respective socket or to upstand from the seat, […]1912, United States. Patent Office, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office: Volume 174
Noun
upstand (plural upstands)
Adjective
upstand (not comparable)
Synonyms of upstand
Antonyms
- downstand
- downhang
Forms of upstand
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | upstands |
| present participle | upstanding |
| past participle | upstood |
| past | upstood |
| Noun | |
| plural | upstands |
Origin of upstand
From Middle English upstanden, equivalent to up- + stand. Cognate with Dutch opstaan (“to rise, stand up”), German aufstehen (“to arise, get up, stand up”), Swedish uppstå (“to arise, emerge, come up”).
Words that rhyme with upstand
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- outstand
- overhand
- bestand
- gland
- secondhand
- unscanned
- disband
- grand
- offhand
- unmanned
- unplanned
- aband
- aland
- fanned
- firsthand
- lotus land
- lotusland
- misbrand
- planned
- redemand
- reland
- repand
- scanned
- shand
- tanned
- thirdhand
- withstand
- 2ndhand
- astrand
- at second hand
- banned
- counterdemand
- desand
- fand
- grande
- haircut band
- hand
- interstrand
- manned
- misunderstand
- multiplicand
- nonbrand
- operand
- overmanned
- overplanned
- panned
- preplanned
- rebrand
Questions about upstand
- What does upstand mean?
- Upstand means to stand up; arise; be erect; rise.
- What part of speech is upstand?
- Upstand can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
- What is the past tense of upstand?
- The past tense of upstand is upstood.
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Source and license
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