standard
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
Other meanings
Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
Having recognized excellence or authority.
“standard works in history; standard authors”
Antonyms
- non-standard
Related words
- multistandard
- nanostandard
- prestandard
- semistandard
- standardbred
- standardese
- standardise
- standardish
- standardism
- standardista
- standardless
- standardlike
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "standar".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “standard” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.