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Meaning of Stein | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
staɪn

Definitions

  1. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic from a Scots diminutive of Stephen.
  3. A surname from German Stein.

Equivalents

العربية شتاين
Català boc
Français chope Stein
Italiano boccale
Kurdî boç stop stop
Nederlands bierpul
Polski kufel
Română halbă
Svenska stop
Українська кухоль

Examples

“So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein—coloring and all. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”
“A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.”
“[…] those 50 grams of resin-soaked dope, which had been so potent that on the second day it had given him an anxiety attack so paralyzing that he had gone to the bathroom in a Tufts University commemorative ceramic stein to avoid leaving his bedroom,[…]”
“Elisheva Baskin and Michael Stein are to be married Sunday evening at the Palisadium, an event space in Cliffside Park, N.J. Rabbi Yaacov Love is to officiate.”
““Sunlight tends to make it a little better,” Stein said. “When people are more covered up in clothing like they are in the fall and the winter, some people’s psoriasis gets worse.””

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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