STANDEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does standee mean? 

• STANDEE (noun)
  The noun STANDEE has 2 senses:

1. 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)

2. a lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity)

  Familiarity information: STANDEE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STANDEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

the allowed number of standees is posted

Hypernyms ("standee" is a kind of...):

stander (an organism (person or animal) that stands)

Domain category:

railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)

Derivation:

stand (be standing; be upright)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

he had his picture taken with a standee of the president

Hypernyms ("standee" is a kind of...):

cutout (a photograph from which the background has been cut away)