STANDEE

standee

(noun) a lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity); “he had his picture taken with a standee of the president”

standee

(noun) someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train); “the allowed number of standees is posted”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

standee (plural standees)

Somebody who is forced to stand up, for example, on a crowded bus.

A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), for instance of a celebrity, often displayed for advertising and promotional purposes; a cut-out.

Synonyms

• (free-standing, rigid print): cut-out

Anagrams

• East End, enstead, steaned

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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