"stand one's ground" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-stand one's ground.ogg [Australia] Forms: stands one's ground [present, singular, third-person], standing one's ground [participle, present], stood one's ground [participle, past], stood one's ground [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|stand<,,stood> one's ground}} stand one's ground (third-person singular simple present stands one's ground, present participle standing one's ground, simple past and past participle stood one's ground)
  1. To hold a position in battle. Translations (to hold a position in battle): holde (stillingen) (Danish), stand houden (Dutch), pitää asemat (Finnish), mantenerse firme (Spanish), resistir (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-stand_one's_ground-en-verb-LQi27lIw Disambiguation of 'to hold a position in battle': 96 4
  2. (idiomatic) To maintain or stick by an opinion or position; to remain resolute in the face of opposition. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to remain resolute): παραμένω (paraménō) (Ancient Greek), holde skansen (Danish), pitää kantansa (Finnish), standhaft bleiben (German), trwać przy swoim [imperfective] (Polish), стоя́ть на своём (stojátʹ na svojóm) [imperfective] (Russian), mantenerse firme (Spanish), mantenerse en sus trece (Spanish), stå på sig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-stand_one's_ground-en-verb-sI9GwIPg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 5 95 Disambiguation of English predicates: 35 65 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 7 93 Disambiguation of 'to remain resolute': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hold one's ground

Inflected forms

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