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stein
1[stahyn]
noun
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
the quantity of beer or other liquid contained in a stein.
Stein
2[stahyn, shtahyn]
noun
Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
Heinrich Friedrich Karl Baron vom und zum 1757–1831, German statesman.
William Howard, 1911–80, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1972.
Stein
1noun
Gertrude. 1874–1946, US writer, resident in Paris (1903–1946). Her works include Three Lives (1908) and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
Heinrich Friedrich Carl (ˈhainrɪç ˈfriːdrɪç karl), Baron Stein. 1757–1831, Prussian statesman, who contributed greatly to the modernization of Prussia and played a major role in the European coalition against Napoleon (1813–15)
Jock, real name John. 1922–85, Scottish footballer and manager: managed Celtic (1965–78) and Scotland (1978–85)
stein
2/ staɪn /
noun
an earthenware beer mug, esp of a German design
the quantity contained in such a mug
Word History and Origins
Origin of stein1
Example Sentences
England and Scotland supporters were told they could be barred from grounds if they have too many steins.
The lock's key was kept in a beer stein displayed in the kitchen, and her husband hid the gun in their bedroom.
In some sections, Fontaine has taped up educational blurbs to explain the origins and cultural significance of certain items, such as antique German beer steins and Staffordshire pottery dogs.
The complete Tesla CyberBeer set includes two bottles of beer along with two matte black ceramic beer steins.
“He said, not really,” Zyma recalled last month, during a traditional Czech dinner in Prague with goulash, dumplings, pigs blood soup and large steins of foamy pilsner.
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