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stander

stander

1 4.7
A person who is standing rather than sitting
  • noun
  • /ˈstændər/
translation icon : persona de pie
  • In the crowded room, several standers were engaged in lively conversations while others took a seat.
  • watch standers
  • line standers

Examples

  • At the concert, the standers eagerly awaited their favorite band to take the stage.

  • He'll also get a stander or mobile stander, I would guess around 18 months old (depends on doctors).

    Blog text (18)

  • When the sheriff came back from supper, she was still there on the bench, the Saturday night shoppers and talkers, standers and passers leaving a kind of island around her, as if unwilling to acknowledge the absolute submission they sensed in her.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • During the race, the stander cheered on his team from the sidelines.

Synonyms

standee
vsstander
  • US
7.6

A person who stands in a crowded bus, train, or theater

is used for any upright person regardless of seating context

Antonyms

sitter
4 4.1

A person or animal that stays still to be painted

Surface Forms

stander singular
standers plural

Morphology

stander = stand (transparent) = stand + er

Standard agentive noun formation from the verb 'stand', so 'a person who stands' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Stander is made from stand ('to be on your feet') and the ending -er meaning 'one who', just like runner is 'one who runs'. So a stander is simply a person who is standing rather than sitting.