Meaning

1 senses

  1. (rare)A place, stead.

Examples

9 sentences

  1. The ship was stowed with arms.

    deDas Schiff war mit Waffen befrachtet. — Tamy

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  2. Always stow your trash for disposal in port.

    deVerstauen Sie Ihren Müll immer für die Entsorgung im Hafen! — Yorwba

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  3. Please stow your tray tables and return your seatbacks to their full upright position.

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  4. Stow away carefully the clothes you removed.

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  5. Stow your carry-on luggage in the overhead compartments.

    deVerstauen sie Ihr Handgepäck in der Gepäckablage! — Yorwba · CC BY 2.0 FR

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Origin

From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germ

From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”), German Stau (“congestion”). See also -stow.

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Forms

plural: stows
Singularstow
Pluralstows

regular

Word family

2 related words
Derivedmoot-stowplaystow

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stoutstoveA2stowawaystraddle
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