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STOUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stout mean?
• STOUT (noun)
The noun STOUT has 2 senses:
1. a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops
2. a garment size for a large or heavy person
Familiarity information: STOUT used as a noun is rare.
• STOUT (adjective)
The adjective STOUT has 3 senses:
1. dependable
2. euphemisms for 'fat'
3. having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
Familiarity information: STOUT used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("stout" is a kind of...):
ale (a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stout"):
Guinness (a kind of bitter stout)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A garment size for a large or heavy person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("stout" is a kind of...):
size (the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing))
Derivation:
stout (euphemisms for 'fat')
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: stoutest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dependable
Synonyms:
stalwart; stout
Context example:
stout hearts
Similar:
resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)
Derivation:
stoutness (the property of being strong and resolute)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Euphemisms for 'fat'
Synonyms:
portly; stout
Context example:
men are portly and women are stout
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Derivation:
stout (a garment size for a large or heavy person)
stoutness (the property of excessive fatness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
Synonyms:
hardy; stalwart; stout; sturdy
Context example:
sturdy young athletes
Similar:
robust (sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction)
Derivation:
stoutness (the property of being strong and resolute)
Context examples
Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mycroft Holmes was a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was quite short and stout and had a big head, which was flat at the top and supported by a thick neck full of wrinkles.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
They had crept in while Buck and Spitz were fighting, and when the two men sprang among them with stout clubs they showed their teeth and fought back.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
“There was a gentleman here, yesterday,” he said—“a stout gentleman, by the name of Topsawyer—perhaps you know him?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Fritz is getting gray and stout.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He saw Beauty Smith go away and return with a stout club.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The body is cobby (stout), longer than it is tall.
(Chihuahua, NCI Thesaurus)
A measured step was heard upon the stairs, and a moment later a stout, tall, grey-whiskered and solemnly respectable person was ushered into the room.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We’re both getting monstrous stout.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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