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# stately

«stately» in Mova's school dictionary: **grand, dignified and impressive, and often slow and calm…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (statelier, stateliest)

### meaning for a pupil

Stately means grand, dignified and impressive, and often slow and calm in movement or appearance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stately/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a stately house, person or procession looks grand and important

### examples

- The stately castle stood on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stately/#x1)
- The swans glided across the lake in stately fashion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stately/#x2)
- A stately old lady sat in the chair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stately/#x3)
- The pigs moved in stately rows across the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stately/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [and sattest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set Mine incense and Mine oil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.612/)
- [There are three things which are stately in their march, yea, four which are stately in going:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.893/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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