Meaning

19 senses
  1. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

    Geschlecht, Stamm, Herkunft

    родrod

    рідrid

  2. A branch of a family.

    Zweig, Seitenlinie

  3. A branch of a family.

    A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.

  4. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

  5. The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.

    Stamm, Sprossachse

    стволstvol, сте́бельstébelʹ

    стебло́stebló

  6. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.

    the stem of an apple or a cherry

    Stängel, Stiel, Halm

    черено́кčerenók, цветоно́жкаcvetonóžka, плодоно́жкаplodonóžka

    a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

  7. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.

    Stiel, Holm

    сте́рженьstérženʹ

    the tube of a tobacco pipe

  8. The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.

    Wortstamm, Stamm

    осно́ваosnóva

    осно́ваosnóva, ко́ріньkórinʹ

  9. (slang)A person's leg.

  10. (slang)The penis.

  11. A vertical stroke of a letter.

    но́жкаnóžka

  12. A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.

    Notenhals

Examples

102 sentences
  1. Roses have thorns on their stems.

    На стеблах троянд є колючки.

    ruУ розы есть шипы на стебле.

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  2. What's a stem cell?

    ruЧто такое стволовая клетка?

    deWas ist eine Stammzelle?

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  3. Tom bought Mary three long-stemmed roses.

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  4. Tom poured wine into three long-stemmed glasses.

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  5. Tom bought three long-stemmed roses for Mary.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors:
botany: above-ground stalk of a vascular plant:
linguistics: main part of a word:
Русский
By meaning 7
stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors:
botany: above-ground stalk of a vascular plant:
slender supporting member for an individual part of a plant:
narrow supporting structure on certain man-made objects:
linguistics: main part of a word:
typography: vertical stroke of a letter:
nautical: forward vertical extension of the keel:
Deutsch
By meaning 9
stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors:
branch of a family:
botany: above-ground stalk of a vascular plant:
slender supporting member for an individual part of a plant:
narrow supporting structure on certain man-made objects:
linguistics: main part of a word:
music: vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music:
nautical: forward vertical extension of the keel:
Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork:

Origin

From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn (“stem”), from P

From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn (“stem”), from Proto-West Germanic *stamni, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz (“stem, tree stalk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”).

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Forms

plural: stems
Singularstem
Pluralstems

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it:stem turn
  • cylinder forming a long narrow part of something:shank
  • a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ:stalk
  • front part of a vessel or aircraft:bow-nforeprow
  • (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed:rootroot wordbasethemeradical

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

63 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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