stound
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Is stound a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of stound?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour.Examples: "What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound"dialectalobsolete
2. (obsolete) A tide, season.obsolete
3. (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.Examples: "He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound."Synonyms: span, duration, interval, period, period of time, tide, time, time intervalarchaicdialectal
4. (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.Examples: "Listen to me a little stound."; "And in that same stound / All suddenly she swapt adown to ground."Synonyms: jiffy, second, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flasharchaicdialectal
5. (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.Examples: "No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage"; "ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...]."dialectal
verb (English)
1. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.Examples: "Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless Retraction follow close upon the heels Of that late stounding insult […]"dialectalintransitiveobsolete
2. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.dialectalintransitiveobsolete
3. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.Examples: "Recently weaned children "stound after the breast.""dialectalintransitiveobsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand still; stop.intransitiveobsolete
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To stop to listen; pause.UKdialectalintransitive
noun (English)
1. (UK dialectal) A stand; a stop.UKdialectal
Definition source: Wiktionary