stound
A moment or instance of urgencyA moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
Meaning
11 sensesA moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
срочностьsročnostʹ
(dialectal)A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
Astonishment; amazement.
(UK, dialectal)A stand; a stop.
A receptacle for holding small beer.
(dialectal, obsolete)An hour.
(obsolete)A tide, season.
(archaic, dialectal)A time, length of time, hour, while.
(archaic, dialectal)A brief span of time, moment, instant.
Listen to me a little stound.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old EnglisFrom Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
From Middle English stounden, stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), from Old English *stundian, from Proto-West Germanic *stundōn, from Proto-Germanic *stundōną. Cognate with German stunden (“to defer payment, give time to pay”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). More at stand.
From Middle English stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from Old English stond (“a stand”). Compare stand.
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