stance

Meaning

Noun

1. The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
2. One's opinion or point of view.
3. A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
4. (specifically) A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
5. (Scotland) A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus stop, a taxi rank.
6. (Scotland) A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a street trader can carry on business.
7. (obsolete, rare) A stanza.

Verb

To place, to position, to station; (specifically) to put (cattle) into an enclosure or pen in preparation for sale.

Synonyms

posture

position

pose

stand

attitude

view

opinion

contention

decision

facet

form

head

heel

hull

idea

💡

insurgence

insurgency

layover

mutiny

notion

point of view

population

rebellion

revolt

riot

sedition

standing

standpoint

standstill

stasis

stub

style

subjectivity

thought

💭

asana

position paper

stop

🛑

speaker point of view

aspect

attention

base

belief

clinch

concept

Translations

position

postura

Haltung

posición

posição

postura

Stellung

attitude

στάση

houding

opinione

posizione

Einstellung

γνωμοδότηση

γνώμη

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɑːns/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: staunce

Cognate with French: stance

Cognate with Spanish: estante

In summary

From Middle English staunce (“place to stand; battle station; position; standing in society; circumstance, situation; stanchion”), from Old French estance (“predicament; situation; sojourn, stay”) (compare modern French stance (“stanza; position one stands in when golfing”)), from Italian stanza (“room, standing place; stanza”), from Vulgar Latin *stantia, from Latin stō (“to stand; to remain, stay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”). The word is cognate with Spanish estante (“shelf”) and a doublet of stanza.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Compare typologically Czech postoj (“stance (the way of holding a body); stance (point of view)”) (cognate via PIE). Also see position, posture.