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interjectionnouncommon in dialogue

Expressing a sudden desire for silence.

interjection

  1. 1

    Expressing a sudden desire for silence.

Etymology

Imitative. Compare hist.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of st. and StAlternative form of st. and St.; abbreviation of street.

  2. 2

    Variant of stateAbbreviation of state.

  3. 3

    Variant of stoneAbbreviation of stone; not capitalized or usually spaced.

    Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.

  4. 4

    Variant of storeAbbreviation of store.

  5. 5

    Variant of stitchAbbreviation of stitch.

    insert right-hand needle bet 2 sts just knitted

    Knit 1 row. Dec 1 st at each end of next row and at each end of every foll alt row until 2 sts rem.

    Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]

    st – stitch

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Forms

plural
sts
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).