Stein Definition

stīn
steins
noun
steins
An earthenware beer mug, or a similar mug of pewter, glass, etc.
Webster's New World
A beer mug, especially one that is large or decorated.
American Heritage
The amount that a stein will hold, about a pint.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • gertrude stein
  • beer mug

Other Word Forms of Stein

Noun

Singular:
stein
Plural:
steins

Origin of Stein

  • From German Stein (“stone"). Not used this way in German. Probably a corruption of Steingut ("stoneware") or Steinkrug. Compare Old English stÇ£na (“stone jug, a pot of stone or earth"). More at stean.

    From Wiktionary

  • German probably short for Steinkrug stone jug Stein stone (from Middle High German) (from Old High German stāi- in Indo-European roots) Krug jug

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • German probably short for Steinkrug stone jug Stein stone (from Middle High German) (from Old High German stāi- in Indo-European roots) Krug jug

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stein Sentence Examples

  • In connexion with the Monumenta Pertz also began the publication of a selection of sources in octavo form, the Scriptores rerum germanicarum in usum scholarum; among his other literary labours may be mentioned an edition of the Gesammelte Werke of Leibnitz, and a life of Stein.

  • Of Metternich, Stadion's successor, he had at the outset no high opinion, and it was not till 1812 that there sprang up between the two men the close relations that were to ripen into life-long friendship. But when Gentz returned to Vienna as Metternich's adviser and henchman, he was no longer the fiery patriot who had sympathized and corresponded with Stein in the darkest days of German depression and in fiery periods called upon all Europe to free itself from foreign rule.

  • Stein, Meyer and Busolt hold that much of his work (especially the later books) was composed at Athens soon after 430 B.C. See further Wachsmuth, Rheinisches Museum, lvi.

  • Capo d'Istria, Nesselrode, Stein, Pozzo di Borgo were perhaps the best men in Europe to manage the Russian policy, while Czartoriski represented at the imperial court the hope of Polish nationality.

  • She seconded the reforming efforts of Stein and the work of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in reorganizing the army, by which the resurrection of Prussia became a possibility.

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