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stow

Pronunciation: /stoːw/

“stow” is an Old English word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a place
  2. a place on the body
  3. a place that is built; house, collection of houses, habitation, dwelling
  4. a place, position, or spot in a series
  5. a room, stead
  6. a place or passage in a book

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, location, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”).

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