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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: standing posture
2: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: position, stance, posture]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English stance, staunce, from Middle French estance position, posture, stay, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *stantia, from Latin stant-, stans, present participle of stare to stand Date: 14th century 1. chiefly Scottish a. station b. site 2. a. a way of standing or being placed ; posture b. intellectual or emotional attitude <took an antiwar stance> 3. a. the position of the feet of a golfer or batter preparatory to making a swing b. the position of both body and feet from which an athlete starts or operates

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an attitude or position of the body esp. when hitting a ball etc. 2 a standpoint; an attitude of mind. 3 Sc. a site for a market, taxi rank, etc. Etymology: F f. It. stanza: see STANZA

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stance Stance, n. [OF. estance. See Stanza.] 1. A stanza. [Obs.] --Chapman. 2. A station; a position; a site. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stances) 1. Your stance on a particular matter is your attitude to it. The Congress had agreed to reconsider its stance on the armed struggle... = position N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp 2. Your stance is the way that you are standing. (FORMAL) Take a comfortably wide stance and flex your knees a little... = position N-COUNT: usu sing, supp N

Moby Thesaurus

affect, affectivity, affirmance, affirmation, air, allegation, announcement, annunciation, assertion, asseveration, assumption, attitude, averment, avouchment, avowal, bearing, beck, beckon, body language, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, charade, chironomy, climate of opinion, color, common belief, community sentiment, complexion, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, consensus gentium, consideration, countenance, creed, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, declaration, demeanor, deportment, dictum, dumb show, emotion, emotivity, enunciation, estimate, estimation, ethos, eye, face, facial appearance, favor, feature, features, feeling, feeling tone, foothold, footing, footplate, footrail, footrest, garb, general belief, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, guise, hand signal, hold, idea, impression, ipse dixit, judgment, kinesics, lights, lineaments, lines, locus standi, looks, manifesto, mental attitude, mien, mind, motion, movement, mystique, notion, observation, opinion, pantomime, perch, personal judgment, physiognomy, point of view, poise, popular belief, port, pose, position, position paper, positive declaration, posture, predicate, predication, presence, presumption, prevailing belief, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, protest, protestation, psychology, public belief, public opinion, purchase, reaction, say, say-so, saying, sentiment, shrug, sight, sign language, stand, standing, standing place, standpoint, statement, theory, thinking, thought, toehold, traits, turn, utterance, view, viewpoint, visage, vouch, way of thinking, word