Synonyms of stands

stands 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of stand

1

as in is

to occupy a place or location

the monument stands in the middle of the town plaza

Synonyms & Similar Words

• is
• sits
• lies
• remains
• resides
• rests
• waits
• bears
• stays
• overlooks
• awaits
• dwells
• commands
• stations
• hangs around
• sticks around
• tarries
• posts

2

as in endures

to put up with (something painful or difficult)

I don't know how you can stand that job

Synonyms & Similar Words

• endures
• accepts
• tolerates
• takes
• handles
• bears
• sustains
• absorbs
• meets
• supports
• wears
• abides
• stands for
• sticks out
• goes
• swallows
• bides
• lumps (it)
• lives with
• brooks
• pockets
• suffers
• sweats out
• countenances
• stomachs
• hacks
• toughs it out
• allows
• permits
• reconciles (to)
• respects
• agrees (with or to)
• acquiesces
• yields (to)
• submits (to)
• capitulates
• consents (to)
• assents (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refuses
• rejects
• dismisses
• opposes
• declines
• repudiates
• spurns
• resists
• turns down
• avoids
• fights
• escapes
• misses
• combats
• eludes
• evades
• contests
• bypasses
• circumvents
• refrains (from)
• dodges
• abstains (from)
• forbears

3

as in pays

to give what is owed for

I'll stand lunch, and you can pay me back later

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pays
• meets
• settles
• balances
• pays off
• pays up
• foots
• clears
• springs (for)
• liquidates
• quits
• discharges
• antes (up)
• recompenses
• ponies up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repudiates

4

as in ranks

to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes

if the city's baseball team wins today, they will stand first in the league

Synonyms & Similar Words

• is
• ranks
• places
• rates
• grades
• seeds
• counts
• classifies
• codifies
• categorizes
• sorts
• separates
• groups
• classes
• installs
• sets
• compartmentalizes
• instates

stands

2 of 2

noun

plural of stand

as in podiums

a level usually raised surface

marchers passed by the reviewing stand

Synonyms & Similar Words

• podiums
• platforms
• stages
• pulpits
• rostra
• tribunes
• balconies
• daises
• altars
• risers
• footpaces
• scaffolds
• bimahs
• galleries

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stands

Verb

An empty raft stands resilient on a platform as beams of light shine through holes made by bullets. —Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026

Georgia-native, 70-foot-tall Loblolly Pine Trees line many of the fairways, and an enormous oak tree stands like a beacon outside of the clubhouse. —Don Riddell, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026

The crucified and risen Christ reveals a God who stands with the oppressed, not one who is used to shield the powerful from criticism or accountability. —Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026

In the first episode back, Cranston stands completely nude as Kaczmarek’s Lois shaves his back and nether regions. —ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026

Amid a scattershot season that has dropped the Miami Heat to the bottom of the play-in pack stands a story at the rare intersection of played out and barely at play. —Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026

Congress hasn’t enacted a new budget that would show Connecticut exactly how much Medicaid funding its state government stands to lose. —Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026

Bamako Encounters, founded in 1994, stands as perhaps the starkest example of this precarity. —Smooth Nzewi, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026

The second most productive site for ostraca in Egypt is Deir el-Medina, a former workers’ village in the Valley of the Kings — but Athribis now stands far ahead. —Ryan Brennan april 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026

Noun

Videos broadcast by local television stations showed a large crowd of fans in the south stands amidst an explosion of fireworks. —CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026

Higher ground is drier and includes trees and shrubs, according to the park service, but swales, which are the lower ground, are wetter and include water stands and wetland plants. —Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026

For more from Lauren Conrad, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on stands Friday. —Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026

In another scene, two mics on stands represent Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, who each tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford mere weeks apart in 1975. —Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026

You may be enticed by a new set of stairs on the northeast side, next to the Bleymaier Football Center, but those are for people sitting in the eastside stands. —Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 28 Mar. 2026

Reds players were already bursting out of the dugout to celebrate a walk-off home run when the ball Spencer Steer hit landed in Roman Anthony’s glove instead of the left-field stands. —Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026

Kiswani has been a lightning rod for political controversy, even taking stands against Mayor Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor and staunch proponent of Palestinian rights. —Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026

Texas is challenges the ruling that Powell is safe and the call stands. —Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 27 Mar. 2026