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• standish
  standish

  noun

  a stand for ink, pens, and other writing materials.
• Standish
  Standish

  noun

  Burt L., pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.

standish

¹ American  

[stan-dish] / ˈstæn dɪʃ /

noun

Archaic.

1. a stand for ink, pens, and other writing materials.

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Standish ² American  

[stan-dish] / ˈstæn dɪʃ /

noun

1. Burt L., pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.

2. Myles or Miles c1584–1656, American settler, born in England: military leader in Plymouth Colony.

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Standish ¹ British  

/ ˈstændɪʃ /

noun

1. Myles (or Miles ). ?1584–1656, English military leader of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, New England

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standish ² British  

/ ˈstændɪʃ /

noun

1. a stand, usually of metal, for pens, ink bottles, etc

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Etymology

Origin of standish

1425–75; late Middle English; origin uncertain; perhaps stand + dish

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Example Sentences

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Little Shaker work-baskets, elegantly fitted up; scent-bottles; a carved wood letter-holder at Goupil's; a bronze standish representing a country well with pole and bucket.

From The House in Town by Susan Warner

Tis Dreadful cold, my ink glass in my standish is froze and splitt in my very stove.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

After she had been reading, perhaps an hour, she dipped a pen into the standish on her escritoir, and began to write slowly, as if weighing every word as it dropped from her pen.

From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

He nodded dismissal, wheeled his chair around to the table, dipped a pen in the standish, and pulled an account-book toward him.

From At Last by Marion Harland

James, even by the confession of his bitter satirist, Francis Osborne, "dedicated rainy weather to his standish, and fair to his hounds."

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli

Mary Watson, 78, of Standish, says: “I could still change my mind.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The firm’s sole female partner, Close’s Dina Standish, blesses their exit, encouraging them to take Nash-Betts’ lead investigator, Emerald Greene, with them.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

“There’s definitely an integral history between Bike and the gay community,” said the team’s president, Jonathan Standish, who’s also a player.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

But the strategies behind running a successful bricks-and-mortar store are shifting, Standish said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2023

Constance knew that he had gone to ask help from Myles Standish, to organize a search, and go out to find the lost.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

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