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Definition: Stag |
StagNoun1. Male red deer. 2. Adult male deer. Verb1. Attend a dance or a party without a female companion. 2. Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam". 3. Watch, observe, or inquire secretly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stag" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To see stags in your dream, foretells that you will have honest and true friends, and will enjoy delightful entertainments. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Stag The reason why a stag symbolises Christ is from the superstition that it draws serpents by its breath from their holes, and then tramples them to death. (See Pliny: Nat. Hist., viii. 50.) Stag in Christian art. The attribute of St. Julian Hospitaller, St. Felix of Valois, and St. Aidan. When it has a crucifix between its horns it alludes to the legendary tale of St. Hubert. When luminous it belongs to St. Eustachius. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | STAG. To turn stag; to impeach one's confederates: from a herd of deer, who are said to turn their horns against any of their number who is hunted. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STAG | Danish | Britisk nulkuponobligation | Finance |
STAG | English | Sterling transferable accruing government security | Finance |
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Synonyms: StagSynonyms: hart (n), betray (v), denounce (v), give away (v), grass (v), peach (v), rat (v), shit (v), shop (v), sleuth (v), snitch (v), snoop (v), spy (v), tell on (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: brawner (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore. |
Animal | Fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar. |
Dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie. | |
Barter | Speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high; corner the market; rig the market, stag the market. |
Man | Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
Nonpayment | Bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter. |
Sociality | Party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_e; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_e, dish of tea, ridotto, rout; housewarming; ball, festival; smoker, smoker-party;sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha; tea-party, tea-fight. (amusement); " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stag |
| English words defined with "stag": Abature, at bay, At gaze ♦ bachelor party, Bald-faced, Beamed ♦ cornered ♦ Dowcet ♦ Elaphine ♦ family Lucanidae ♦ Lamellicornia, Lucanidae ♦ Palmed deer, Polled ♦ red deer, royal, royal stag ♦ Stag tick, Stag-horn coral, staghorn fern, Stag-horn fern, Stag-horned, Stagworm, superfamily Lamellicornia, Surroyal ♦ To beat up and down, trapped, treed, Tres-tyne. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stag": Actaeon ♦ Brobdingnag ♦ GNU ♦ Hubert, Hunters and Runners ♦ Kenne ♦ pegmatitic stage ♦ ROYAL STAG SOCIETY ♦ Soho!, Spaie ♦ To PEACH, TO STAG. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stag": Venada. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stag" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (brace, cramp-iron), German (stay), Swedish (guy, stay, strut). |
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Screenplays | Noit's a stag party, and that means that the gals stay home (Bachelor Party; writing credit: Bob Israel; Neal Israel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stag Party (1986) Heart of the Stag (1984) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Panther seizing a stag. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stag Island casino, Port Huron, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A panoramical view of the lakes of Killarny, County Kerry, Ireland, exhibiting the mountains, the stag hunt on the lake, and its neighbouring scenery, in views taken on the spot by C.K. Farrelly in 1836 / Lith. of Endicott, N. York. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This manoeuvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. A hunter from Kew caught a distant view Of a peacefully meditative gnu, And he said: "I'll pursue, and my hands imbrue In its blood at a closer interview." But that beast did ensue and the hunter it threw O'er the top of a palm that adjacent grew; And he said as he flew: "It is well I withdrew Ere, losing my temper, I wickedly slew That really meritorious gnu." Jarn Leffer |
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| "Stag" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.69% of the time. "Stag" is used about 248 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.69% | 215 | 20,643 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.66% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.84% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 248 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "stag". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ajalon | N/A | Biblical | A stag |
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Expressions using "stag": bull stag ♦ royal stag ♦ stag beetle ♦ stag dance ♦ stag film ♦ stag hog ♦ stag night ♦ stag party ♦ stag the market ♦ stag tick ♦ to break a stag. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "stag": stag-beetle, Stag-evil, stag-fight, stag-headed, stag-horn, Stag-horn coral, Stag-horn fern, Stag-horn sumac, Stag-horned, stag-hounds, stag-like, stag-movie, stag-night, stag-party, stag-toe. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
stag | 300 | uk stag party | 23 |
stag party | 161 | roaring stag | 18 |
stag night | 105 | beer stag | 17 |
stag leap | 92 | stag night uk | 17 |
stag weekend | 84 | hen and stag party | 17 |
deer stag | 76 | idea stag | 16 |
stag beetle | 71 | stag night in blackpool | 16 |
shop stag | 70 | red stag | 15 |
stag film | 66 | blackpool stag and hen | 15 |
white stag | 61 | game stag | 15 |
triumph stag | 59 | blackpool stag | 15 |
clothing stag white | 41 | hen and stag | 15 |
deer stag shoes | 36 | lee stag | 14 |
stag weekend uk | 33 | stag leap wine cellar | 14 |
doe game stag | 31 | sale stag triumph | 12 |
stag movie | 28 | picture stag | 12 |
doe stag | 28 | film stag vintage | 12 |
idea party stag | 25 | party stag venue | 11 |
stag and hen night | 24 | deer red stag | 11 |
stag leap winery | 23 | stag horn fern | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "stag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mashkull (buck, bull, dog, he, male, mate, Tom), dre (buck, deer, elk). (various references) | |
Arabic | حفلة سامرة, حيوان مخصي, ظبي (antelope, deer, elk, fallow deer, gazelle, mountain goat, ram). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сам мъж, следя (gumshoe, keep an eye on, mouse, observe, ride herd on, shadow, tail, track, trail, watch), кастриран шопар (hog), кастриран бик, наблюдавам (eye, inspect, keep an eye on, look on, note, observe, oversee, regard, watch), забавлявам се по ергенски, елен (red deer), борсов спекулант (bear, operator, punter, stock jobber, wildcatter). (various references) | |
Chinese | 雄鹿 (buck). (various references) | |
Cornish | carow. (various references) | |
Czech | jelen (buck, deer, Hart). (various references) | |
Danish | underart af kronhjort (Bactrian red deer, Bokharan deer, hanglu, Kashmir stag, red deer), lam (lamb), kalv (calf). (various references) | |
Dutch | mannetjeshert. (various references) | |
Esperanto | vircervo. (various references) | |
Farsi | پاءیدن (Eye, Surveillance, Watch), کوتاه کردن (Abbreviate, Abridge, Curtail, Dock, Short, Shorten), کره اسب (Colt), جلسه یامهمانی مردانه , جاسوسی کردن (Espy, Pickeer, Spy), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references) | |
Finnish | saksanhirvi (red deer), hirvi (deer, elk, hart, moose). (various references) | |
French | soirée entre hommes (stag night, stag party), mâle, cerf. (various references) | |
German | hirsch (deer, hart, venison). (various references) | |
Greek | αρσενικό ελάφι (buck). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צבי (antelope, deer, gazelle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szarvasbika (hart), szarvas (deer, horned), tőzsdespekuláns, facér férfi, bika (bull, steer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | batang-batang (go stag). (various references) | |
Italian | cervo (buck, deer, Hart, red deer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 牡鹿 (buck). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おじか (buck). (various references) | |
Manx | tarroo-feeaih, feeaih firryn (buck deer, hart, pricket), dow (hart, ox), charroo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | veado macho, veado (deer, hart, veal), macho de certos animais, homem desacompanhado, especular na bolsa (operate), especulador (adventurer, bull, speculator, spiv). (various references) | |
Romanian | cerb (deer, Hart, Roebuck), burlac (bachelor, celibate, single, single man, wifeless). (various references) | |
Russian | рогач холостяцкий, олень-самец (buck, stag party), биржевой спекулянт (stockjobber). (various references) | |
Scottish | damh (ox), ùrlach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uštrojena životinja, muškarac bez žene, jelen (buck, deer, hart). (various references) | |
Spanish | soltero (bachelor, drifter, single, unattached, unmarried), venado (deer, venison), especulador con nuevas emisiones, ciervo (buck, deer, Hart, red deer). (various references) | |
Swedish | hjorthane. (various references) | |
Thai | สัตว์ตัวผู้ที่ตอนแล้ว, กวางตัวผู้ (roebuck). (various references) | |
Turkish | spekülatör (adventurer, bear, bull, operator, plunger, speculator), spekülasyon yapmak (bear, bull, gamble, operate, speculate), sap (butt, cauline, grip, haft, halm, handgrip, handhold, handle, haulm, helve, hilt, lug, nut, peduncle, scape, shaft, shank, stalk, stem, stick, Stipe, stock), yalnız gitmek, yalnız erkekler için, iri erkek hayvan, erkeklere özel parti (stag party), erkeklere özel (buck), erkek geyik (buck, Hart), damsız erkek, borsa yatırımcısı (speculator). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | холостяцька вечірка, віл (beef, neat, nowt, ox), олень-самець, без жінок, призначений тільки для чоловіків. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hươu đực (buck). (various references) | |
Welsh | hydd, carw (deer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | lulim. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cervus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | heorot. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stag": stage, stageable, stagecoach, stagecoaches, stagecraft, stagecrafts, staged, stageful, stagefuls, stagehand, stagehands, stagelike, stager, stagers, stages, stagestruck, stagey, stagflation, stagflationary, stagflations, staggard, staggards, staggart, staggarts, stagged, stagger, staggerbush, staggerbushes, staggered, staggerer, staggerers, staggering, staggeringly, staggers, staggery, staggie, staggier, staggies, staggiest, stagging, staggy, staghound, staghounds, stagier, stagiest, stagily, staginess, staginesses, staging, stagings, stagnancies. (additional references) | |
Words containing "stag": backstage, downstage, downstages, forestage, forestages, hostage, hostages, interstage, multistage, mystagog, mystagogies, mystagogs, mystagogue, mystagogues, mystagogy, nystagmic, nystagmus, nystagmuses, offstage, offstages, onstage, postage, postages, prostaglandin, prostaglandins, restage, restaged, restages, restaging, soundstage, soundstages, substage, substages, upstage, upstaged, upstages, upstaging, wastage, wastages. (additional references) | |
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"Stag" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estang, Estaugh, etag, jtag, Ostig, sbag, scag, sdeg, setag, shtg, siag, smag, spag, sqag, sta, staf, stagg, stagt, staig, stalg, Stangl, staq, stau, stax, staz, stda, stego, steig, stg, stieg, stig, stiv, stmg, stog, stoga, stogg, strag, straga, stug, stuv, styg, Ts'ao, Tsegu, tsog, Ystad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stag" (pronounced sta"g) |
| 3 | -t a" g | tag. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gast, gats, tags. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gas, gat, sag, sat, tag, tas. | |
-2 letters: ag, as, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agist, angst, gaits, gasts, gates, getas, ghast, ghats, gnats, goats, stage, stags, stagy, staig, stang, tangs, togas. | |
+2 letters: agates, ageist, agents, aghast, agists, aglets, angsts, argots, aughts, august, egesta, fagots, gainst, gamest, gamuts, garths, gasket, gaslit, gasted, gaster, gators, gaults, gavots, gayest, ghauts, giants, gloats, grafts, grants, grates, gratis, greats, groats, magots, outgas, retags, sagbut, sagest, satang, sating, staged, stager, stages, stagey, staggy, staigs, stalag, stangs, stigma, strang, taigas, tangos, targes, teguas, tongas, tragus, twangs. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Derived from 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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