stav
Pronunciation: /stav/
“stav” is a Slovak word. Its 7 meanings in English:
noun
- state, condition, status (the set of characteristics or circumstances defining someone or something at a specific time)
- marital status, status (the legal standing of a man or woman regarding marriage)
- level, count, amount, figure (data regarding the quantity or quality of something at a given time)
- profession, vocation, calling (a person's occupation or the group of people belonging to it)
- estate, class, rank (a major social class or layer of society, especially in the past)
- loom (a machine or apparatus for weaving fabric by interlacing threads)
- millpond, millrace (water stopped and accumulated by a dam or weir, typically to drive a mill wheel)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stavъ.
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