What does stance mean?

Definitions for stance
stænsstance

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word stance.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. stancenoun

    standing posture

  2. position, stance, posturenoun

    a rationalized mental attitude

GCIDE

  1. Stancenoun

    the mental attitude, position, or approach a person adopts in respect to something.

  2. Stancenoun

    (Golf, Baseball) The position of a player's feet, relative to each other and to the ball, when he is making a stroke or at bat.

Wiktionary

  1. stancenoun

    The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.

    The fencer's stance showed he was ready to begin.

  2. stancenoun

    One's opinion or point of view.

    I don't agree with your stance on gun control.

  3. Etymology: Via, from stanza, from stare.

ChatGPT

  1. stance

    Stance refers to a person's mental, emotional, or physical position or perspective towards a particular subject, situation, or event. It can also refer to the way in which someone stands, especially when consciously adopted for a specific purpose.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Stancenoun

    a stanza

  2. Stancenoun

    a station; a position; a site

  3. Etymology: [OF. estance. See Stanza.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Stance

    stans, n. (Scot.) a station, site, stand.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. STANCE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Stance is ranked #144141 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Stance surname appeared 115 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Stance.

    72.1% or 83 total occurrences were Black.
    22.6% or 26 total occurrences were White.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'stance' in Nouns Frequency: #1953

Anagrams for stance »

  1. ascent

  2. enacts

  3. secant

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stance in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of stance in a Sentence

  1. Kenichiro Sasae:

    In the presidential elections, there are arguments whether United States is going for the isolationist stance, i don't want to see that kind of United States.

  2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

    My opponent has literally called ICE' fascist,' yet he refuses to take the stance of abolishing it, which, to me, is morally incomprehensible. Words mean something, and the moment you have identified something as fascist, that with it carries a moral responsibility to abolish it, that's what I'm talking about when we say that norms have been eroded : that we literally have elected officials arguing to basically retain fascist agencies. And that's on the left.

  3. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester:

    While explicit forward guidance was used as a policy tool during the recession and earlier in the recovery, in more normal times, away from the zero lower bound, I believe forward guidance should be viewed more as a communications device, as such, I would like to see the forward guidance evolve over time to give more information about the conditions we systematically assess in calibrating the stance of policy to the economy's actual progress and anticipated progress toward our dual-mandate goals.

  4. Shah Asad Rizvi:

    Elevate the dance, evolve with its stance, execute it with all that you feel within, each movement as though a synergy with heartbeats

  5. Jerome Powell:

    We think our policy stance is appropriate at the moment; we don't see a strong case for moving it in either direction.

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