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stag

stag
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [stag]
    • /stæg/
    • /stæɡ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [stag]
    • /stæg/

Definitions of stag word

  • noun stag an adult male deer. 1
  • noun stag the male of various other animals. 1
  • noun stag a man who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a woman. 1
  • noun stag Informal. stag party. 1
  • noun stag a swine or bull castrated after maturation of the sex organs. 1
  • noun stag British. a speculator who buys securities of a new issue in the hope of selling them quickly at a higher price. 1

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Origin of stag

First appearance:

before 1150
One of the 7% oldest English words
1150-1200; Middle English stagge; akin to Old Norse steggi, steggr male bird (> E (north dial.) steg gander), Icelandic steggur male fox, tomcat

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Stag

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

stag popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

stag usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for stag

adv stag

adj stag

  • alone — When you are alone, you are not with any other people.
  • anti-social — Someone who is anti-social is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
  • by oneselfbe oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
  • hermitical — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
  • lone — being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied: a lone traveler.

noun stag

  • bachelor — A bachelor is a man who has never married.
  • clambake — A clambake is a picnic at which clams and other food are served.
  • dos — any of several single-user, command-driven operating systems for personal computers, especially MS DOS.
  • gala — festive; festal; showy: Her birthday parties were always gala occasions.
  • available — If something you want or need is available, you can find it or obtain it.

verb stag

  • catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
  • fish out — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • look for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • eyeball — Look or stare at closely.

adverb stag

  • abandoned — An abandoned place or building is no longer used or occupied.
  • companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
  • deserted — abandoned; forsaken: the problems of deserted wives and children.
  • desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
  • detached — Someone who is detached is not personally involved in something or has no emotional interest in it.

adjective stag

  • apart — When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other.
  • eremetic — Of or pertaining to eremites, reclusive, isolated.
  • isolate — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
  • loner — a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others: He was always a loner—no one knew him well.
  • onliest — being the single one or the relatively few of the kind: This is the only pencil I can find.

Antonyms for stag

adjective stag

  • accompanied — to go along or in company with; join in action: to accompany a friend on a walk.
  • along — If something is situated along a road, river, or corridor, it is situated in it or beside it.

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