Meaning of стан | Babel Free

Definitions

1. condition, state (a set of circumstances applying at any given time)
   inanimate, masculine
2. frame (a human body or the structure thereof)
   inanimate, masculine
3. waist (the part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach)
   inanimate, masculine
4. status (a person's position or standing relative to that of others)
   inanimate, masculine
5. state (the physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma)
   inanimate, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“I haven't dared to shave, I'm in that rash state.”

“Without a tremor in her voice, or frame, and passing onward with a foot that set itself upon the neck of every soft emotion, she bade her mother good-night, and repaired to her own room.”

“И, сделав усилие над собой и помня то, как в этих случаях поступают вообще все люди в его положении, он обнял Катюшу за талию.”

With some effort he overcame his shyness, and remembering how people generally act in such a case, he put his arm about Katiousha's waist.

“His majesty's royalty was accepted without further question or discussion, and the two little girls began at once to inquire into how he came to be where he was, and how he came to be so unroyally clad, and whither he was bound, and all about his affairs.”

His majesty's royal status was accepted without further debate, and the little girls began to inquire how he came to be here, how he came to be so unroyally clad, and whither he was bound.

“The party seemed to get colder and colder, and to be gradually resolving itself into a congealed and solid state, like the collation round which it was assembled.”

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