stad

From Afrikaans and Dutch stad (“city, town”), from Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stad, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, position”). Doublet of stead.

stad (plural stads)

1. (South Africa) town, village

• “stad”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “stad”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• DATs, dat's, dast, ADTs, ATDs, tads, DTAs, SADT

From Dutch stad, from Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stad, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis.

• IPA^(key): /stat/

• Audio:

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stad (plural stede)

1. city

   Ons gaan nou stad toe.

   We are going to town now.

From Middle High German stat, a variant of stæt, whence German stet. Cognate with East Central German staad.

• IPA^(key): /ʃd̥ɑˑd̥/

stad (non comparable)

1. quiet, silent

   Sei stad! ― Be quiet!

• håcknstad
• schmähstad

• → German: stad

Borrowed from Old French estat.

• IPA^(key): /stad/

stad f (plural stadoù)

1. state

From Old Danish stath, from Old Norse staðr (“place, city”), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz. Originally the same word as sted (“place”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsd̥æð]

stad c (singular definite staden, plural indefinite stæder)

1. (dated) town, city

• stad on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da (redirects to "by")
• “stad” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stat, stedi (whence stede, stee), from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis.

The plural has preserved the old Germanic umlaut in a morphological function, a rarity in Dutch. Several derived terms have umlaut as well.

• IPA^(key): /stɑt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: stad
• Rhymes: -ɑt

stad f (plural steden, diminutive stadje n)

1. city, town

   Amsterdam is een bruisende stad vol cultuur. ― Amsterdam is a bustling city full of culture.

   Ze verhuisde van een klein dorp naar een grote stad. ― She moved from a small village to a big city.

   Het stadje had een rijke geschiedenis. ― The small town had a rich history.

2. the town/city centre

   Ik ben nu in de stad.

   I am now in town. I am now in the centre (of town).

   Ik ga de stad in.

   I am going into town.

• Afrikaans: stad
• Berbice Creole Dutch: stati
• Jersey Dutch: stād
• Negerhollands: stadt, stad
• Skepi Creole Dutch: stat
• → Caribbean Javanese: setat
• → Papiamentu: stat, stad
• → Peranakan Indonesian: stad

Borrowed from Bavarian stad.

• IPA^(key): /ʃd̥aˑd̥/

• Audio (Austria):

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stad (strong nominative masculine singular stader, not comparable)

1. (Austria, Bavaria, Southern Germany, colloquial) quiet, silent

• stet
• stets

• “stad” in Duden online
• “stad”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

stad

1. romanization of 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌳

From Old Irish stad, from Latin status, perfect passive participle of stō (“stand, remain”). Doublet of stádas.

• IPA^(key): /sˠt̪ˠɑd̪ˠ/^[1], /sˠt̪ˠad̪ˠ/^[2][3]

stad (present analytic stadann, future analytic stadfaidh, verbal noun stad, past participle stadta)

2. to stop, halt, cease, stay

stad m (genitive singular stad, nominative plural stadanna)

2. verbal noun of stad
3. stop, halt
4. pause, cessation
5. hindrance, impediment
6. stop (stopping-place, e.g. bus or tram stop)

• grianstad (“solstice”)
• stad bus (“bus stop”)
• imeallstad (“marginal stop”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “stad; stadaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1117; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “stad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Inherited from Arabic اِصْطادَ (iṣṭāda).

• IPA^(key): /staːt/
• Homophone: stat
• Rhymes: -aːt

stad (imperfect jistad, past participle mistad)

1. to fish (catch fish)
2. to hunt

• Colloquially, the first and second persons of the perfect may be formed irregularly as stadejt, stadejna, stadejtu.

stad

1. alternative form of stede (“place”)

From Danish stad, from Old Danish stath, from Old Norse staðr (“place, spot, city, town”), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place, location”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, position”), from *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”) + *-tis (“derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots”).

stad m (definite singular staden, indefinite plural steder, definite plural stedene)

1. (literary) a (large) city, (also in compounds) town

• by

• sted

• “stad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stad” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• IPA^(key): /stɑː/

From Old Norse staðr, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis.

stad m (definite singular staden, indefinite plural stader or stadar, definite plural stadene or stadane)

1. place
2. city, town
3. situation

stad n (definite singular stadet, indefinite plural stad, definite plural stada)

1. river bank

• elvebard

Short form of av stad.

stad

1. away; off

   Han fór stad om morgonen.

   He went off in the morning.

• av stad
• av garde

• i stad
• i staden for

• “stad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Dutch stad.

stad

1. city

   Synonym: kota

• IPA^(key): /ˈstat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: stad

stad n

1. genitive plural of stado

• sted (Puter)
• stà (Vallader)

From Latin aestās, aestātem.

stad m (plural stads)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) summer

From Old Irish stad, from Latin status, perfect passive participle of stō (“stand, remain”).

stad (past stad, future stadaidh, verbal noun stadadh, past participle stadte)

1. stop, halt, pause, desist (of movement)

• sguir (of actions other than movement)

stad m (genitive singular stada, plural stadan)^[1]

1. stop
2. pause

• grian-stad
• stad-phuing

• stadh, stedt (both obsolete)

From Old Swedish staþer, from Old Norse staðr, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. The sense “town, city” is a semantic loan from Middle Low German stat, from the same Proto-Germanic noun.

• IPA^(key): /stɑːd/

• Audio; “en stad”:

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• When used in compound words (e.g. stadsdel), stads- is pronounced IPA^(key): /stats/.
• Rhymes: -ɑːd

stad c

1. a city, a town

   Coordinate terms: by (“village”), ort (“locality”), samhälle (“community”), småstad (“small town”), storstad (“big city”)

   Göteborg är en stad på västkusten

   Gothenburg is a city on the west coast

   Tokyo och New York är städer

   Tokyo and New York are cities

   åka in till stan

   go [with a vehicle] into town [see the usage notes below]

3. (archaic, now mostly in compounds) a place, a stead

   Synonyms: plats, ställe

   eldstad

   fireplace

   verkstad

   workshop

   (literally, “workstead”)

4. (weaving) a selvage

• See also the contracted form stan of staden (“the city, the town”), which is idiomatic in some constructions.
• Today, Sweden has no legal definition of stad. Settlements are instead defined via the terms centralort (“central locality”) and tätort (“dense(-ly populated) locality”). However, in 1995 Statistics Sweden defined a stad as a built-up area with more than ten thousand inhabitants.

• → Finnish: Stadi

• stan

• “stad”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “stad”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “stad”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

stad (definite accusative stadı, plural stadlar)

1. nonstandard spelling of stat