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STANDER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organism (person or animal) that stands

Example:

a crowd of sitters and standers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("stander" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stander"):

standee (someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train))

Antonym:

sitter (an organism (person or animal) that sits)

Derivation:

stand (be standing; be upright)

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