- nounstandard (noun) · standards (plural noun)
- a level of quality or attainment:"their restaurant offers a high standard of service" · "the ambition to raise standards in schools is widely shared"
- a required or agreed level of quality or attainment:"half of the beaches fail to comply with EPA standards" · "their tap water was not up to standard"
- an idea or thing used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations:"the wages are low by today's standards" · "the system had become an industry standard"
- (standards)principles of conduct informed by notions of honor and decency:"a decline in moral standards"
- a form of language that is widely accepted as the usual form:"the idea of the standard is projected backwards onto states of language"
- the prescribed weight of fine metal in gold or silver coins:"the sterling standard for silver"
- a system by which the value of a currency is defined in terms of gold or silver or both.
- a tune or song of established popularity.
- a military or ceremonial flag carried on a pole or hoisted on a rope.
- a tree or shrub that grows on an erect stem of full height.
- a shrub grafted on an erect stem and trained in tree form:"a standard rose"
- botanythe large, frequently erect uppermost petal of a papilionaceous flower. Also called vexillum
- botanyone of the inner petals of an iris flower, frequently erect.
- an upright water or gas pipe.
adjectivestandard (adjective)- used or accepted as normal or average:"the standard rate of income tax" · "it is standard practice in museums to register objects as they are acquired"
- (of a size, measure, design, etc.) such as is regularly used or produced; not special or exceptional:"all these doors come in a range of standard sizes"
- (of a work, repertoire, or writer) viewed as authoritative or of permanent value and so widely read or performed:"his essays on the interpretation of reality became a standard text"
- denoting or relating to the spoken or written form of a language widely accepted as usual and correct:"speakers of standard English"
- (of a tree or shrub) growing on an erect stem of full height:"standard trees are useful for situations where immediate height is needed"
- (of a shrub) grafted on an erect stem and trained in tree form:"standard roses"
OriginMiddle English (denoting a flag raised on a pole as a rallying point, the authorized exemplar of a unit of measurement, or an upright timber): shortening of Old French estendart, from estendre ‘extend’; in standard, standard, standard, influenced by the verb stand.Similar and Opposite Wordsnoun- a level of quality or attainment:
- an idea or thing used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations:
- a military or ceremonial flag carried on a pole or hoisted on a rope.
adjective- used or accepted as normal or average:
- (of a work, repertoire, or writer) viewed as authoritative or of permanent value and so widely read or performed:
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