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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Stand to Reason (To), or It stands to reason, is the Latin constare, constat. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Certainty | Verb: be certain; Adjective: stand to reason. |
Demonstration | Follow, follow of course, follow as a matter of course, follow necessarily; stand to reason; hold good, hold water. |
Manifestation | Be manifest; Adjective: appear; (be visible); transpire; (be disclosed); speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face, rear its head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell its own tale; (intelligible). |
Right | Verb: be right; Adjective: stand to reason. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "STAND TO REASON": to stand to reason. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stand to reason | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STAND TO REASON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "理に適う (to stand to reason). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうりにかなう (to stand to reason). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | andstay otay easonray само собой разумеется (it goes without saying, of course). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: annotators, detonators, toadstones. | |
-4 letters: aerostats, annotated, annotates, annotator, detonator, rattooned, resonants, sandstone, seastrand, sonorants, toadstone, tornadoes. | |
-5 letters: aerosats, aerostat, andantes, annattos, annotate, arnattos, arnottos, assentor, assonant, assorted, attorned, donators, entrants, nonrated, notornes, odonates, odorants, ratooned, rattoons, resonant, senators, sonorant, standers, starnose, stentors, sternson, tandoors, tannates, tartness, testoons, toasters, tornados, torsades, tostadas, tostados, treasons. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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