"stand behind" meaning in English

See stand behind in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: En-au-stand behind.ogg Forms: stands behind [present, singular, third-person], standing behind [participle, present], stood behind [participle, past], stood behind [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|stand<,,stood> behind}} stand behind (third-person singular simple present stands behind, present participle standing behind, simple past and past participle stood behind)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To support; express one's support for, especially despite opposition; to stick with a decision. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (to support): seistä takana (Finnish), mettere la faccia (Italian)
    Sense id: en-stand_behind-en-verb-LGrVPbbp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "behind", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Italian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "behind": 51 49 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 70 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of 'to support': 100 0
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stand, behind.
    Sense id: en-stand_behind-en-verb-r1qXq59O Categories (other): English phrasal verbs formed with "behind" Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "behind": 51 49

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands behind",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing behind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood behind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood behind",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> behind"
      },
      "expansion": "stand behind (third-person singular simple present stands behind, present participle standing behind, simple past and past participle stood behind)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "60 40",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"behind\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-02:",
          "text": "Mayor Bloomberg and Ms. Wittenberg had repeatedly stood behind the plan, insisting it was best for the city.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To support; express one's support for, especially despite opposition; to stick with a decision."
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_behind-en-verb-LGrVPbbp",
      "links": [
        [
          "support",
          "support"
        ],
        [
          "stick with",
          "stick with"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To support; express one's support for, especially despite opposition; to stick with a decision."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to support",
          "word": "seistä takana"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to support",
          "word": "mettere la faccia"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"behind\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stand, behind."
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_behind-en-verb-r1qXq59O",
      "links": [
        [
          "stand",
          "stand#English"
        ],
        [
          "behind",
          "behind#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-stand behind.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/En-au-stand_behind.ogg/En-au-stand_behind.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/En-au-stand_behind.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand behind"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"behind\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands behind",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing behind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood behind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood behind",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> behind"
      },
      "expansion": "stand behind (third-person singular simple present stands behind, present participle standing behind, simple past and past participle stood behind)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-02:",
          "text": "Mayor Bloomberg and Ms. Wittenberg had repeatedly stood behind the plan, insisting it was best for the city.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To support; express one's support for, especially despite opposition; to stick with a decision."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "support",
          "support"
        ],
        [
          "stick with",
          "stick with"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To support; express one's support for, especially despite opposition; to stick with a decision."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stand, behind."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stand",
          "stand#English"
        ],
        [
          "behind",
          "behind#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-stand behind.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/En-au-stand_behind.ogg/En-au-stand_behind.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/En-au-stand_behind.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to support",
      "word": "seistä takana"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to support",
      "word": "mettere la faccia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand behind"
}

Download raw JSONL data for stand behind meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.