stag
An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus…An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
» I went stag to the prom.
Meaning
14 senses(countable)An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
Hirsch, Hirschbock, Rothirsch
оле́ньolénʹ, рогачrogač
a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
(Scotland, countable)A young horse (colt or filly).
Fohlen
(UK, countable, uncountable)A male turkey: a turkeycock.
adult male deer
(countable)An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
(countable)An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
(countable)One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
Konzertzeichner
(attributive, countable, usually)An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
(countable)A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
(colloquial, countable, uncountable)A man who allows his wife to have sex with other men.
(countable, slang)An informer.
(UK, slang, uncountable)Guard duty.
(countable)A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
Examples
26 sentencesI went stag to the prom.
I'll throw you a stag party.
It's his stag do.
Це його холостяцька вечірка.
deEs ist sein Junggesellenabschied.
It's his stag party.
Це його холостяцька вечірка.
ruЭто его холостяцкая вечеринка.
deEs ist sein Junggesellenabschied.
It's his stag night.
Це його холостяцька вечірка.
deEs ist sein Junggesellenabschied.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 5
Origin
From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possiblyFrom Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
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Forms
plural: stagsSynonyms
6 synonyms- a male deer, especially an adult male red deer:hart
Word family
28 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable