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# stander

«stander» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who stands and watches** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (standers, standers-by)

### meaning for a pupil

A stander is a person who stands and watches. Standers-by are people who are standing nearby, watching what happens without taking part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stander/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales the standers-by are onlookers who are surprised by what a hero does

### examples

- The standers-by gasped when the knight won. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stander/#x1)
- Many standers-by cheered at the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stander/#x2)
- The standers-by did nothing to help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stander/#x3)
- A crowd of standers-by watched the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stander/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stander» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stander/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.