stein

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/staɪn/

Definition of stein

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
    “So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein—coloring and all. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”
    “A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.”
    “[…] those 50 grams of resin-soaked dope, which had been so potent that on the second day it had given him an anxiety attack so paralyzing that he had gone to the bathroom in a Tufts University commemorative ceramic stein to avoid leaving his bedroom,[…]”
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noun

  1. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
    “So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein—coloring and all. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”
    “A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.”
    “[…] those 50 grams of resin-soaked dope, which had been so potent that on the second day it had given him an anxiety attack so paralyzing that he had gone to the bathroom in a Tufts University commemorative ceramic stein to avoid leaving his bedroom,[…]”

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname originating as a patronymic from a Scots diminutive of Stephen.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A surname from German Stein.
    “Elisheva Baskin and Michael Stein are to be married Sunday evening at the Palisadium, an event space in Cliffside Park, N.J. Rabbi Yaacov Love is to officiate.”
    ““Sunlight tends to make it a little better,” Stein said. “When people are more covered up in clothing like they are in the fall and the winter, some people’s psoriasis gets worse.””
  3. (countable, uncountable)A place in Switzerland:
  4. (countable, uncountable)A place in Switzerland:
  5. (countable, uncountable)A place in Switzerland:
  6. (countable, uncountable)A place in Switzerland:

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Etymology

From a regional use of German Stein (“stone”). Probably a clipping of Steingut (“stoneware”) or Steinkrug (“stone pitcher”). Compare Old English stǣna (“stone jug, a pot of stone or earth”). Doublet of stone. More at stean.

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