Stamina

Definition: Stamina

Stamina

Noun

1. Enduring strength and energy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stamina" was first used: 1676. (references)

Synonyms: Stamina

Perseverance

Bottom, game, pluck, stamina, backbone, grit; indefatigability, indefatigableness; bulldog courage.

Strength

Stoutness; Adjective: lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality.

Crosswords: Stamina

Latin (stamina, threads).

Get in here and warm me up, woman, and I'll show you stamina. (Promised Land; writing credit: Frédéric D'Onfs; Olivier Langlois)

When you were in the Corps, you had hair and youth and stamina. (Promised Land; writing credit: Frédéric D'Onfs; Olivier Langlois)

Thank you for your companionship, for your stamina, your horse sense, and a hundred and one laughs. (Norma Rae; writing credit: Harriet Frank Jr.; Irving Ravetch)

I thought you knew too stone style is of stamina (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Building Strength & Stamina (reference)

• Energy Up!: Shed Pounds, Get Fit, Gain Stamina, and Turn on Your Power With This Unique Program (reference)

• Executive Stamina (reference)

• Living Yoga - Power Stamina Yoga for Beginners (reference)

• Scott Tinley's Winning Guide to Sports Endurance: How to Maximize Speed, Strength & Stamina (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Power Yoga the Complete Workout - Stamina, Strength, Flexibility with Rodney Yee (reference)

• Living Yoga - Power Stamina Yoga for Beginners (reference)

• Power, Strength, Stamina (Martial Arts Conditioning Series) (reference)

• Koo Self Defense - Series A Tape 4: Stationary Hands Stamina (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stamina [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Many doctors tell angina patients to gradually build up their fitness level--for example, start with a 5-minute walk and increase over weeks or months to 30 minutes or 1 hour. The idea is to gradually increase stamina by working at a steady pace, but avoiding sudden bursts of effort. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "stamina": stamina-building, stamina-packed, stamina-sapping.

Albanian

qëndrueshmëri (constancy, durability, firmness, fixity, lasting, permanence, permanency, resistance, stability, stand up), qëndresë (endurance, fastness, fortitude, hardiness, lasting, resistance, stand, stay, tolerance, toughness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقاومة (fight, impedance, opposition, refractoriness, reluctance, renitency, resistance, stand, strength), ‏قوة العقلية, ‏قوة (ability, agency, arm, authority, birr, capacity, clout, dint, energy, faculty, force, forcefulness, forcing, hardihood, intension, intensity, iron, leverage, might, operation, potency, power, severity, sinew, solidity, starch, stoutness, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, violence, virility, virtue), ‏قدرة إحتمال, ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, strength, stringency, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), жилавост (resilience, resiliency, stringiness, toughness). (various references)

Czech

výdrž (grit), odolnost (endurance, immunity, tolerance, toughness), energie (energy, pith, power, sap, snap, spirit, vigor, vigour, vim), životní síla (vital force, vitality). (various references)

Farsi 

پرچم (Banner, Ensign, Standard, Whiff), نیروی حیاتی (Lifeblood, Vivacity), طاقت (Gut, Lip, Nerve, Patience, Sufferance), استقامت (Assiduity, Backbone, Perseverance), بنیه (Gut). (various references)

French

vigueur (stir, strength, sturdiness), résistance (stand, strength), endurance (stay). (various references)

German

Stehvermögen (mettle, staying power), Ausdauer (endurance, enduringness, hardiness, patience, perseverance, persistence, persistency, staying power, tenacity). (various references)

Greek 

σθένοσ (fortitude, pith, pithiness, sinewiness, valency, vigor, vigour, vim, virility), ζωτικότητα (vim, vitalism, vitality, vitalness), αντοχή σώματοσ, οστά. (various references)

Hebrew 

כושר עמי�"�", כושר �"תמ�"�" (perseverance), כוח עמי�"�", כוח סבל (durability, endurance, persistence), �"תמ�"�" (constancy, continuity, diligence, endurance, permanence, perseverance, persistence), סבולת (allowance, endurance, resistance, tolerance). (various references)

Hungarian

erély (forcefulness, snap, strength, vent, vigor, vigour), kitartás (durance, endurance, long-suffering, loylity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, steadiness, strength, sustainment, tenacity, toughness), életerő (gimp, kick, living force, pith, sap, vigor, vigour, vim, zing), állóképesség (endurance, fitness, stay). (various references)

Indonesian

daya tahan (endurance, tenability). (various references)

Italian

vigore (effectiveness, flush, force, forcefulness, greenness, manhood, pep, puissance, punch, sap, soundness, spirit, strength, strenuousness, sturdiness, trenchancy, verve, vigor, vigour), resistenza (drag, endurance, hardiness, resistance, resistor, strength, wear), lena (breath, energy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

耐久力 , 持久力 (tenacity), 元気 (courage, energy, health, pep, robust, spirit, vigor, vim, vitality), スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいきゅうりょく, スタミナ (energy), �'�"き (affectation, courage, energy, health, ostentation, pep, robust, spirit, standard, vanity, vigor, vim, vitality), じきゅうりょく (tenacity). (various references)

Manx

butt (a little crowd, heap, mark, strength), bree (animation, drift, effect, energy, essence, exhalation, gist, glow, implication, importance, initiative, interpretation, inwardness, power, significance, validity, vigour, virtue). (various references)

Pig Latin

aminastay

Portuguese

vigor (bang, energy, flush, force, hardiness, liveliness, lustiness, nerve, pep, power, snap, steam, strength, stringency, vigour, vim, virility, vitality), perseverança (consistence, consistency, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulity), energia (action, activity, drive, driving, efficiency, energy, force, ginger, go, grasp, gumption, handgrip, heartiness, intensity, iron, ironwork, kick, liveliness, lustiness, main, mettle, momentum, nerve, output, pep, pith, potency, power, push, snap, spring, spunk, steam, stoutness, strength, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, virility, vitality, zip). (various references)

Romanian

vigoare (effect, emphasis, energy, flush, force, pep, rankness, sap, snap, stoutness, strength, sturdiness, vigor, vigour, vim), rezistenţã (endurance, kick, lasting, opponency, opposition, proof, reliability, reluctance, resistance, stand, stoutness, strength, tolerance of, toughness), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, reign, resistance, right, rulership, sap, steam, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim). (various references)

Russian 

тычинка (stamen, thrum), выносливость (durability, endurance, hardiness, persistence, staying power). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snaga (brawn, clout, firmness, force, kick, leverage, might, potency, power, rankness, sap, sinew, strength, sturdiness, vigor, vigour, wallop), izdržljivost (durability, endurance, staying power, wear). (various references)

Spanish

aguante (endurance, grit, guts). (various references)

Swedish

uthållighet (endurance, perseverance, persistence, sand, staying power), styrka (establishment, force, fortify, impact, intensity, invigorate, kick, loudness, lustiness, manpower, might, power, probate, prove, sinew, strength, strengthen, toughen, validate, vigor, vigour). (various references)

Turkish

yaşama gücü (vigor, vigour, vitality), kuvvet (beef, command, dint, energy, exponent, force, lustiness, main, might, pith, potency, power, punch, robustness, sinew, strength, thews, vigor, vigour, vinegar, vis, zing), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capability, capacity, clout, clutch, clutches, command, control, difficult, dominance, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, rod, sinew, spirit, steam, sting, strength, stuffing, sword, tone, tricksy, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, vitality, zing), dayanma gücü (bottom, resistance, staying power, strength, vitality), canlılık (alacrity, animation, bounce, brightness, brio, buoyancy, color, colour, crispness, dynamics, elan, exhilaration, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, perkiness, quickness, raciness, richness, saturation, spiritedness, sprightliness, stir, verve, vivacity, vividness). (various references)

Ukrainian

опірність, житт�"здатність (viability). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sức chịu đựng (sand, staying power), khả năng chịu đựng (stay). (various references)

stamina. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stamina": staminal, staminas, staminate. (additional references)

Words containing "stamina": histaminase, histaminases. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stamina" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estalian, Ntimana, Salmina, Samangan, Samawna, samin, samina, samine, settimana, Shamiana, staine, staini, stamana, stamia, stamian, stamn, stamocap, stanine, Stasiak, stemina, stimina, stmian, Strahinja, suttonian, tamina. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: animas, atmans, manats, manias, mantas, mantis, matins.

-2 letters: amain, amias, amins, amnia, anima, antas, antis, atman, atmas, mains, maist, manas, manat, mania, manta, matin, minas, mints, saint, satin, stain, tains, tamis.

-3 letters: aims, ains, aits, amas, amia, amin, amis, anas, anis, ansa, anta, anti, ants, atma, main, mana, mans, mast, mats, mina, mint.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: amanitas, amentias, amiantus, animates, antimask, mainmast, mainstay, mantissa, martians, satanism, staminal, staminas, talisman, tamarins.

+2 letters: amanitins, anatomies, anatomise, anatomist, animaters, animators, antiatoms, antimasks, atonalism, calamints, claimants, diamantes, haematins, laminates, mainmasts, mainstays, maintains, mantillas, mantissas, marinates, nizamates, samaritan, satanisms, shamanist, staminate, talismans, tamarinds, tarantism, trimarans.

+3 letters: abominates, almandites, aluminates, amazonites, amiantuses, ammoniates, amyotonias, anabaptism, anamnestic, anastigmat, anatomised, anatomises, anatomists, anatomizes, animations, antagonism, antiasthma, antiracism, atonalisms, dalmatians, damnations, deaminates, emanations, examinants, fanaticism, inamoratas, lambasting, laminators, machinates, magazinist, mainstream, malathions, manganites, manzanitas, marginates, mediastina, myasthenia, naturalism, palmations, phantasmic, ptarmigans, reanimates, samaritans, sanatorium, sanitarium, semantical, shamanists, squamation, staminodia, talismanic, tarantisms, thiaminase.